Cher wanted to be an entertainer more than I've seen anybody want to be an entertainer in my life.

I feel kind of like the black sheep in Congress, but here I am.

People underestimate me, but I've always been a stretch runner.

If anybody ever dares to compare Bob Dole to Clinton, then they're comparing a criminal to an honest man.

Don't cling to fame. You're just borrowing it. It's like money. You're going to die, and somebody else is going to get it.

People have said to me, 'You can't write songs. You can't play an instrument.' But I've got 10 gold records.

We all love the environment, but we have placed creatures above people. A rat is a rat.

With all due respect to lawyers, it's wonderful that you have this intricate knowledge. You break down words to the nth degree. And sometimes I find it rather disgusting. And it goes on and on.

We must get rid of the IRS. It's a bureaucracy fraught with totalitarianism.

Put your ego aside and play as a team.

I'm not homophobic, I'm not a bigot, I'm not pandering to hatred.

The sun will set without thy assistance.

Today it is time for every child to have a right to life, right to freedom, right to health, right to education, safety, the right to dignity, right to equality, and right to peace.

Our security in a global world must be looked at on a continental basis.

I have alternately been called an Aristocrat and a Democrat. I am neither. I am a Christocrat.

The best motivating factor of all, however, is divine intervention, or what I like to call The Magic of Grace.

Give a member of Congress a junket and a mimeograph machine and he thinks he is secretary of state

Yes, its one of the basic truths of the universe,....Things don't disappear. They just change, and change and change again.

You should never be too much involved... otherwise, you suffer and you can't sing. This is what happened in the very first years I sang Madame Butterfly.

The water in the stream may have changed many times, but the reflection of the moon and the stars remains the same.

Virtuous men alone possess friends.