You may be less likely to pick on someone if you dont know whats in their briefcase or purse.

The president already has a Nobel Prize for peace. I think he's shooting for one in fiction.

While people are free to draw different conclusions from the facts, there should be no debate over whether the American public is entitled to have all of the facts.

Facts are neither Republican nor Democrat.

It always matters, whether or not you can trust your government.

The notion that the First Amendment has no limitations whatsoever is balderdash.

If you can turn off certain categories of law, do you not also have the power to turn off all categories of law?

I’m unelectable in the District of Columbia.

My daughter took Latin for three years; she still cant speak it.

There's no way we can get to the bottom of Benghazi without David Petraeus.

When you go into public service, you understand you're trading something. You want to feel good about what you do, but you're not going to make what people in private sector make.

Never forget to forgive yourself

There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.

Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through.

The security light made me feel safe, though I knew that was an illusion. If there's light, you can just see what's coming for you a little more clearly.

I wish I could always look like I've just finished a really good laugh.

Boy, you just can't kill people like you used to.

Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.

I can’t help thinking about memoir as a down-and-up process: Dive down for color; come up for context. Sink back down for action; climb back up for self-awareness and gratitude.

Learn to become still, and take your attention away from what you don't want

A lot of things in 'Parents' I find very truthful.