When I'm not a politician, I'll be dead.

Small men, seeking great wealth or power, have too often and too long turned even the highest levels of public service into mere personal opportunity.

While I am a great believer in the free enterprise system and all that it entails, I am an even stronger believer in the right of our people to live in a clean and pollution-free environment.

Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.

A woman has a right to an abortion. That's a decision that's up to the pregnant woman, not up to the pope or some do-gooders or the Religious Right.

The Republicans have a positive talent for self-destruction.

By maintaining the separation of church and state, the United States has avoided the intolerance which has so divided the rest of the world with religious wars.

I've always said I have nothing against a woman doing anything a man can do as long as she gets home in time to cook dinner.

I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws but to repeal them.

Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible?

The fellow has absolutely no principles."Money and gall" is all he has.

As far as behind the scenes, I absolutely want to get into making my own films and producing my own things.

Unless you're the director on the movie, or putting up the money for the movie, you really don't have a lot of control.

You have all the tools and resources you need. What you do with them is up to you.

We Don't always succeed in what we try, certainly not by the world's standards, but I think you'll find it's the willingness to keep trying that matters most.

To make big steps, you've got to take action yourself and not listen to other people.

I need a big wave to really excel. The smaller stuff is a bit like...ballet for me.

It was absolutely thrilling to meet Laurel and Hardy, they were so nice.

I wanted to make sure to always stay current, try to find new material and stay with the modern techniques.

But part of the job of economics is weeding out errors. That is much harder than making them, but also more fun.

I'm not just interested in the pictorial aspects of the landscape - see a pretty place and try to paint it - but in some way to manage it, manipulate it, or see what I can turn it into.