Candidates should be extremely cautious in displaying a sense of humor. If he or she tells a joke with a point, there is almost certain to be some minority group offended.

American voters have to pay closer attention to politics if they want to avoid four years of whining about the outcome.

Every newspaper editor says the heart of the paper is the reporter - which is true - except for the pay!

My liberal friends are such a bunch soft-headed, politically correct jerks.

Television doesn't like politics very well, if you can infer that from the way they cover it.

I loved politics and, I confess, I enjoyed politicians immensely.

The secret of doing well on TV is to understand that it's not too important. A lot of people watching doesn't change anything.

Everyone I know thinks television is the most important part of my life. I did it for the money! I was able to send my daughter to college.

If one candidate is appealing to your fears, and the other one's appealing to your hopes, you’d better vote for the person who wants you to think and hope!

There is only one way to overcome the difficulty of writing, and that is to write. Thought only becomes effective and productive at the time of writing.

When you talk about rap you have to understand that rap is part of the Hip-Hop culture.

We destroy ourselves when we stop feeling. If you bury your feelings within you, you become a graveyard.

I'm gonnna break your faces!

All great song, from the first day when human lips contrived syllables, has been sincere song.

People come up to me in bars and on street corners and they say to me, 'Hey, Paulsen, have you got any change?'

Warren Beatty once quipped that the best time for a wedding was noon, because if the marriage didn't work, you hadn't screwed up the entire day.

You might question a winkle - a feeling that came to you right out of the blue - but you didn’t question knowing.

My mind is a warehouse of carefully organized human emotions. I lock away the things that do not serve me.