I started as a stand-up comedian. I wanted to be Carol Burnett when I was growing up.

You don't have to think exactly like me. When people go, "I don't agree with everything you say," you know what, if you agree with everything anyone says, you're an idiot.

I don't know how many times a phone call or e-mail starts with, "I don't agree with anything you say but you're funny as hell so I listen to your show, I love your show."

You don't have to be straight. You just have to shoot straight.

Fox succeeds because it's entertaining. It's like a rightwing freak show.

I was actually abandoned by wolves and then raised by Republicans.

My politics just kind of developed over time as a reaction.

Is it possible that more black people hate the President than are actually alive?

I like fighters. That's why I love Russ Feingold. I love Barbara Boxer. And Howard Dean and John Conyers. Democrats I talk to around the country want their leaders to come out and fight for them.

I auditioned for 'Cats' - I didn't sing but I was able to cough up a hairball.

This is so sexist. I mean, are we really going to put this as a standard of something we are going to judge our presidential candidates by?

The sea in all its vastness is its own, real world. Man is nature's sci-fi.

I've never had an interest, but baseball looks abnormal.

There has not been a war in South America for fifty years, and I have every confidence that the countries of Central and South America are deeply in earnest in the maintenance of peace.

If it were given to a man to see virtue's reward in the next world, he would occupy his intellect, memory and will in nothing but good works, careless of danger or fatigue.

I just let my hair go - if there's no hairdresser around I really can't be bothered!

Sometimes it seems that we are successful only because we have not tried hard enough for our best. We do the hard thing, and one day we succeed, and many things are made plain to us.

Drunk, Jane spoke as though she were Nancy Drew. I was a fool for a girl with a dainty lexicon.

I am not surprised that they show no intention to follow in my footsteps, although if I had a second chance myself, I would certainly try to repeat my present career.

Political liberty is only good insofar as it produces private liberty.

Testing of self is a regular part of our own lives, so it seems natural to make it a part of the lives of my characters, as well, albeit on a much different level.