Sam Quotes

I do think there's a lot more we can do on the life agenda.

Everybody has values. Now, you know it may be formed in a secular setting, it may be formed in an intellectual setting, but everybody comes forward with values.

Politics are important but your soul lasts forever. So, you know, you make ... decisions on what you think is right or wrong and then you just go forward.

Children of those who have been incarcerated are five times more likely to go to prison than children of parents who have never been incarcerated. The sins of the father visiting the child.

The next president needs to know foreign policy and not learn it on the job.

I believe you [Samuel Alito] and others would look and say that the role of the courts is limited and it's not to decide political matters.

What I find is most people have a civics book understanding for how Congress works and how a bill moves.

Most Americans want judges who will stick to interpreting the law rather than making it.

I believe, assume the power to decide more political than legal issues in nature, the people naturally focus less on the law and more on the lawyers that are chosen really to administer the law.

[Jane] Roe has made it not only possible, but has found it constitutional to kill a whole class of people, simply because of their genetic make-up.

The Supreme Court has also issued and never reversed a number of decisions that are repugnant to the Constitution's vision of human dignity and equality.

I stated at Justice [John] Roberts' hearing, the court's injected itself into many of the political debates of our day.

If you get married, you lose all your benefits. That's insane! We should give people bonuses for getting married, and sending signals and talking about it to the society.

I am the age of the some of the grandparents that are bringing their young grandchildren to hear the music. I have been fortunate enough to see multiple generations of families come see my shows.

What I liked about working with Palmbomen and him being a super crate digger and super well known with all this exotic and unfamiliar music to me.

We have all this digital equipment, and sometimes this analog stuff comes back and people say "Oh my god!" It makes a different sounding music.

People link the 80s to that very liberal theme, growing up in a very liberal world, having ideals or not having ideals. The 80s were an confusing era.

When you're writing a screenplay every scene needs to change from positive to negative, or negative to positive, and constantly trying to change the values of the movie.

In 27 years of reporting from Washington, I've never heard a President admit he made a mistake.

It wasn't until the late '70s that a lot of people knew me.

My personal opinion is that guns kill people.

The President's very shrewd

The press . . . traditionally sides with authority and the establishment.

My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.

Baseball is the ideal forum for teachiing the art of failure; the very best fail to get a hit seven out of ten times.

Making movies is never going to get better than working on a Coen brothers project.

I'm picky, very picky. I wanted to be an actor since I was nine years old, and I figured that was only one way to ever have any longevity, and that's to be careful about what kind of work you do.

I read a lot of scripts. Most of 'em go to other actors.

When I was about 12, I wanted a CD player for Christmas, but instead my parents gave me a really crappy electric guitar.

"Tell me, doctor, " said the patient, "when I stand on my head, the blood rushes to it. Why doesn't it rush to my feet now?" "That's because your feet aren't empty," said the doctor.

Don't drive as if you own the road; drive as if you own the car.

If we are what we eat, why aren't we new, improved, fat-free, and light.

A neighbor will stand at your door talking for 20 minutes because she doesn't have time to come in.

The brain is like a TV set; when it goes blank, it's a good idea to turn off the sound.

In many instances, marriage vows would be more accurate if the phrase were changed to 'Until debt do us part'.

Two things help to keep one's job. First, let the boss think he's having his own way. Second, let him have it.

President Herbert Hoover returned his salary to the government. His idea caught on, and now we're all doing it.

When a husband says, "I run things in my home" he may mean the washing machine, the dishwasher and the vacuum cleaner.

Ever notice that nothing changes the color of paint like putting it on a wall?

Crime in the cities is very discouraging. Apartment house dwellers have locks, bolts, chains and bars on their doors. It takes a tenant longer to get out than a burglar to get in.

Wouldn't you like to weigh what it says on your driver's license?

Nobody's too fat - they're just too short.

Some people are much like blisters-they don't show up until the work is done.

Success is when your name is in everything but the telephone directory.

The sight of home looks best after you've traveled hundreds of miles to get away from it.

If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now.

I'm basically a poetry scholar, and I'm happier here in my studio with my row of Chinese dictionaries than I am, frankly, at Lincoln Center.

Of course, there are some people who behave rudely. Allen Ginsberg used to like to get up in public and take his clothes off. I don't do that, but I liked Allen Ginsberg. He was a nice guy.

I think a lot of American poets are swimming-pool Soviets. A lot of them have taken the comfortable, self-protective route too often. I know that I certainly have. That's easy to do.

George W. Bush is using language that's a mirror image of the language of Osama bin Laden when he says, "We have God on our side. This is the struggle of good against evil."