I've been very independent from the day I arrived in Washington.

I'm a moderate. I hang out in the middle. I vote against my party with some regularity and try to compromise. It doesn't appear right now that the Republican Party is welcoming moderates any more.

[Hillary Clinton] and I are fine. Are we going to be besties for the rest of our lives? No.

When the Tea Party comes to town, compromise goes out the door.

The White House has something in common with the rest of America, and that is disdain for Congress. It is hard to blame them.

If every crime victim had to have perfect judgment, we could empty our prisons.

You never know what'll happen in politics.

What? You don't trust me?

Well, Im wrestling alligators.

Mitch McConnell is a professional arm twister. He's done this for many years. He has a lot of power in his caucus.

For Donald Trump to dismiss out of hand the intelligence community's fact gathering is, frankly - doesn't bode well for him protecting our country.

You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself.

Life is a journey toward the unknown. That is why life is so exciting!

She is the innocent stuff in the background of time.

As an actor, you're a color of paint on someone else's palette. But as a director, it's your canvas and you make the painting you want to make.

I did movie star impressions as a kid in high school. Somehow they just got out of hand.

If a person had delivered up your body to some passer-by, you would certainly be angry. And do you feel no shame in delivering up your own mind to any reviler, to be disconcerted and confounded?

I am a babe for a living.

When we are exalted by ideas, we do not owe this to Plato, but to the idea, to which also Plato was debtor.

Dancing with death meant being committed to killing, committed with your heart and soul.

I would never kill somebody, unless they pissed me off.