M.C. Steve Quotes

We have 31 Republican governors in this country. We have roughly the same number of Republican legislatures.

Ever since [Ronald] Reagan, they've been able to capture the message and an understanding - or persuade people of a certain understanding of what the nation is about and what's good for it.

Identity liberalism, as I understand it, is expressive rather than persuasive.

I'm just imagining some of [Mark Lilla] fellow liberals being rather angry at you saying such a thing [that Democrats and liberals, more generally, lost a lot of political capital ].

Putin himself is a bit of a risk taker, so the invading Ukraine, in the east in particular - Crimea was risky.

The president-elect seems to want Russia as a friend. President Obama arguably has not wanted to say that Russia is that great of a threat.

[Identity liberalism] is about recognition and self-definition. It's narcissistic. It's isolating. It looks within. And it also makes two contradictory claims on people.

Hillary Clinton, [Democrats] say, leads the popular vote by two million, and a shift of a few votes in a few states would have won the election.

[Mark] Lilla is a professor at Columbia University in New York, and he has waded into the debate about what Democrats and liberals should do now. Some Democrats answer nothing.

People are supposed to be loyal to the country above [Donald's Trump] family.

Donald Trump places great faith in his son-in-law Jared Kushner.

So many awful things have happened in Karachi, it's true. It has its own crazy rhythm. Even as crazy as other news is in Pakistan, the city manages to beat that in the frequency of catastrophes.

The Kremlin, this cadre of people supporting Vladimir Putin, and Vladimir Putin himself understand is strength, is resolve.

We need to be stronger. We need to deter the Russians. We need to show resolve, which is why cooperating with them on the other hand can be more difficult.

Those are the liberals who don't want to win. Those are the liberals who are in love with noble defeats, and I'm sick and tired of noble defeats.

I prefer a dirty victory to a noble defeat.

The fact that - I mean, these are things to be talked about. You can't do anything without educating the public, right? And that's a slow work.

Congress can grant a waiver [for General James Mattis ] and has done that once in history.

Karachi captures all of those rifts between ancient and modern, communal and individual. You see them playing out in people's lives.

Is that really the issue [of bathrooms and gender] we want to be pushing leading up to a momentous election like this one? It's that shortsightedness that comes from identity politics.

As a result of the current universal benefit, the poverty rate for seniors in America is about 10%. Without the universal benefit, it would be over 50%.

I make my decisions and my judgments not based on what a prime minister of another country says, but based on what my principles tell me... how may DNA guides me.

For these reasons, women tend to rely more heavily on Social Security in their retirement than do men.

Click. Boom. Amazing!

Something new will always be the source of growth in Silicon Valley.

When burned on a CD, the human genome is smaller than Microsoft Office.

IT is now reaching out to fuels and chemicals, energy and clean tech, rockets, all kinds of bizarre industries that formerly didn’t face much competition.

Putting seven people in orbit should not cost more than flying a commercial jet around earth.

If we get public education right, everything else will follow. But if we get it wrong, not much else will matter.

If our children are healthy, they'll develop into their full potential and become wonderful tax-paying citizens sometime.

Disease does not recognize congressional districts or party affiliation.

We have federal standards for everything in America except the one thing you need most - your health.

I grew up with the television product being old Western serials like Roy Rogers, and John Wayne and Gary Cooper, and many others were my favorites when I was a young person going to films.

If you stay in this business long enough, you're liable to hit it big.

I came in thinking about Bobby Ewing, but I love this Ray Krebbs role.

I have English family in Northhampton and have been to England numerous times.

In my twenties, my pleasures tended to be physical. In my thirties, my pleasures tended to be intellectual. I can't say which was more exquisite.

You know you're old when the president is younger than you.

I would love to play Lee in 'True West' and Bobby in 'Company.

Social media is its own sort of thing: Twitter and Facebook have changed the way everyone perceives everything.

My mother always told me before shows to stand up and show them whose little boy you are.

I grew up in a very small, rural country town, and we didn't really have 'the arts.'

All I ever wanted to do was be on Broadway. I mean, remember, I grew up in a trailer.

We go see theater, we take in art because it makes us feel.

The thing is that I'm an actor first, and in 'Once,' I was able to be a musician and a singer as well as an actor.

When you start hiding things away, that’s when the darkness creeps up. Sunlight is the best disinfectant.

We had a lot of luck this year and our guys took advantage. Wow. What a night.

My driving career is low, but musically, it's all pretty high. It's a test of patience, takes forever, but I guess that's the nature of the thing of life. I'm glad to be living the musical life.

I was rescued from being a greaser by music.

I just like being in a place where there are lots of people playing. You might get to spend a minute, or collaborate.