You cannot be against embryonic stem cell research and be intellectually and therefore morally consistent, if you're not also against in vitro fertilization.

Stem cell research can revolutionize medicine, more than anything since antibiotics.

We have three cats. It's like having children, but there is no tuition involved.

I couldn't join a party that, frankly, tolerates members who are bigots for one thing, homophobes, racists.

I admire the fact that the central core of Buddhist teaching involves mindfulness and loving kindness and compassion.

Now, ignorance is one thing, ignorance can be cured. But many of the Republican leaders opposing this research know better.

The joke in our family is that we can cry reading the phone book.

When you hear somebody justifying a war by citing the Almighty, I get a little worried, frankly.

I have to say that flying on Air Force One sort of spoils you for coach on a regular airline.

My wife and I just prefer Seattle. It's a beautiful city. Great setting. You open your front door in the morning and the air smells like pine and the sea, as opposed to bus exhaust.

People who believe they are acting with the mandate of God, who see others who don't share their beliefs as inferior in the eyes of God, make dangerous leaders. Just ask Osama Bin Laden.

I'm dying!" Malfoy yelled, as the class panicked. "I'm dying, look at me! It's killed me!

Frankie Perino and I were lucky that day. Lucky to be alive-that's what everyone said.

Your enemies are not to be destroyed, grant them longevity to witness your success.

Twelve Highlanders and a bagpipe make a rebellion.

I have to be very careful about how often I drag my family to places. They need some stability in their lives.

Think small and act small, and we'll get bigger. Think big and act big, and we'll get smaller.

What we teach children to love and desire will always outweigh what we make them learn.

DNCE is “dance without the a.” It’s not a perfect word, and you don’t always have to be a perfect dancer to dance. Life is just sometimes not perfect.

I have, by long experience, found women to be like Telephus's spear: if one end kills, the other cures.

My nonviolence does recognize different species of violence, defensive and offensive.