You share things with people and I think information, and art, and ideas should be shared.

As far as what I do love, I love birds; I love lavender.

Democracy is not a spectator sport, it's a participatory event. If we don't participate in it, it ceases to be a democracy.

A lot of people on Capitol Hill don't want to talk to me.

I'm interested to see what happens with Fox News and phone hacking. I really can't believe it just happens in Great Britain. Because really, who cares about just hacking phones over there?

There's a gullible side to the American people. They can be easily misled. Religion is the best device used to mislead them.

I'm a millionaire, I'm a multi-millionaire, I'm filthy rich. You know why I'm a multi-millionaire? 'Cause multi-millions like what I do.

The Iraqis who have risen up against the occupation are not 'insurgents' or 'terrorists' or 'The Enemy.' They are the REVOLUTION, the Minutemen, and their numbers will grow - and they will win.

This book, 'Stupid White Men,' has sold now over four million copies worldwide. Probably about half of that may be in the U.S. and Canada, and the rest, overseas.

Any time you got the Pope and the Dixie Chicks against you, your time is up.

Back in the '80s and '90s, when GM was consistently posting giant profits, they were simultaneously firing tens of thousands of workers in my hometown of Flint and across Michigan.

Can you identify the voices inside of your own head? It’s imperative that you do so you can understand who is doing your thinking.

Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers.

What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.

In the prayer time, the battle of the spiritual life is lost or won.

I believe in working in a bipartisan manner.

I've always felt that a really good joke, a really good one-liner, is a really good line of poetry. It's imagistic, it's compact, there is a rhythm to it.

We all think we're liberated when we have more of everything, don't we? That's what the media tell us.

The most common trait I have found in all successful people is that they have conquered the temptation to give up.

I have lived in the only decades I could have lived in, and hope to live through at least a few more.

While most of the things you've worried about have never happened, it's a different story with the things you haven't worried about. They are the ones that happen.