I'm not going to throw my state under the bus. That's never going to happen.

What's going on in the Senate is kind of a politics of escalation. We're getting sort of like the Mideast: pay back everybody when you're in charge.

Social Security must be preserved and strengthened. But we need to be candid about the costs and willing to make the tough choices that real reform will require.

We cannot win this war on terror if people are undercutting us. And one way to undercut us is to empower Iran.

What is the environmental platform of the Republican party? I don't know either.

Some people say I'm too blunt and I'm too direct, too straightforward. I think we could use some of that in Washington, D.C.

We’re not generating enough angry white guys to stay in business for the long term.

Dishonest, which is Hillary Clinton in the eyes of the American people, beats crazy. Dishonest loses to normal. So, let's just pick somebody out of the phone book if we have to.

It's really American to avoid paying taxes, legally.

The sooner we get started with alternative energy sources and recognize that fossil fuels makes us less secure as a nation, and more dangerous as a planet, the better off we'll be.

I'm running because I think the world is falling apart.

If you love books enough, books will love you back.

Simple natural food is far better than sophisticated food with artificial flavors.

A face-lift is a woman’s attempt to lower the odds of the next person accurately guessing her age.

There are two problems in my life. The political ones are insoluble and the economic ones are incomprehensible.

As human beings, don't we need questions without answers as well as questions with answers, questions that we might someday answer and questions that we can never answer?

we only asked for leopards to guard our thinning dreams.

Throw up whatever's making you sick, Darren," he said, "then get your behind back in here.

Some people think that words can injure the psyche or the moral fiber. And they really can't.

To feel estranged from language is to lose your own body.

Never again work in the same conditions in whichyou made your first film. It's good to take risks, but not thatmuch risk.