I don't think that Washington is a fundamentally bad or corrupt place.

The fact that slavery is written into the Constitution is about as entrenched a form of classism as you could possibly imagine.

We all experience power struggles in our lives - at the workplace, with our friends, in our love lives. In a way, we're all politicians.

When you have both parties who will not find ways to compromise, who won't meet in the middle, you have paralysis. It's the perversion of idealism.

If you work hard and play by the rules, you'll have a better life than your parents did, and your children will have a better life than you did.

In the best possible scenario, whenever you get notes from people, they're good notes, and they see things that you wouldn't have seen otherwise, and they make you a better writer.

My jobs on campaigns were pretty low on the totem pole - I was an advance man.

When you're creating new roles out of scratch in my opinion working with the actors is a great asset. You can learn a lot from that.

You just have to re-wire your brain when you’re shifting from the stage to the screen, or the silver screen or the HD flat screen.

The checks and balances is a way to prevent government from either devolving into an autocratic tyranny or an autocratic mob mentality.

I didn't realise how hard it was to be a mom and keep it all together.

Elvis, stop dat! You know it is taboo to whistle at night. You will attract a spirit.

The discipline of daily devotion to God undergirds decisions.

pretty please, with a cherry on top of me!

The Right insists that anyone can escape poverty by working hard but that is simply not the case.

My main life lesson from investing: self-interest is the most powerful force on earth, and can get people to embrace and defend almost anything.

I'm typing so f-ing hard I might break my f-ing Mac book Air!!!!!!!!

You can't call yourself a feminist if you don't believe in the right to abortion.

I like the wrestling and executing the throws. My dad was a wrestler and he showed me some of those techniques, too.

Once I stopped trying to always do everything my way, and once I asked for God's help, things have truly gone a different direction.