Working under the Soviet system made you very paranoid - people were afraid of everything - and this paranoia is still in people's minds.

My childhood in the Soviet Union was not terrible, it was very joyful.

Life under the Soviet system was often funny, absurd really, especially for children.

One of the great constants in life is change.

Politics is a field where action is one long second best and where the choice constantly lies between two blunders.

Nothing really happened - I was elected in '86 - until 1992, and that's when the Anita Hill debacle happened.

No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so.

Until women assume their rightful place on earth there will never be an end to wars, cruelty and oppression.

Morality becomes hypocrisy if it means accepting mothers' suffering or dying in connection with unwanted pregnancies and illegal abortions and unwanted children

If what you hear preached doesn't cause faith to come and build faith in your spirit, then it either isn't the Word of God or else you're not hearing it

These men both publicly and privately have done so much for me. Without Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick I would be living in a little motel just around the corner here, trying to make ends meet.

In America you get as much justice as you can afford.

I think any man would be nervous if his liberty is at stake.