If you don't meet the standards, then you don't qualify.

The bureaucracy is not great. I don't think Rick Santorum who is not one for being a big proponent of large bureaucracies would be as enthusiastic a supporter of it.

Republicans believe largely in the market working, Democrats believe stereotypically that you've got to give people something. So why not give people a chance to let the market work for them.

I expect the Republicans will enjoy a large bounce out of their convention. They're here wrapping themselves in the 9/11 flag, which I think is inappropriate in many ways, but it's their choice.

I love New York, I love the smell of New York... I love the subway.

The U.S. economy and workers benefit from a strong, healthy relationship between government and business.

I am a Yankees fan. I should say - have been to more Yankees games than Mets games.

I refuse to do anything that would help Republicans win a Senate seat in New York, and give the Senate majority to the Republicans.

To say that I am pro life is just wrong. I am personally pro-choice and legislatively pro-choice.

Some say I was disappointed when President Obama won, and that is absolute nonsense.

Killing terrorists is cheaper than capturing them.

A wedding, a great wedding, is just a blast. A celebration of romance and community and love... What is unfun about that? Nothing.

What guides me is to do work that's more avant-garde - things that I think are special. You can easily become a celebrity and get caught up in all that blur. I just want to work and surprise myself.

I can't stand being in Chicago anymore and hearing the Brahms Violin Concerto in the elevator. Because that shows me that when they come to the concert hall they listen to it in the same way.

When you have kids, you see life through different eyes. You feel love more deeply and are maybe a little more compassionate. It's inevitable that that would make its way into your songwriting.

It is impossible for a man who is bogged to extricate another who is bogged.

Strange: how when a light is extinguished, it's immediately as if it has never been. Darkness fills in again, complete.

As long as I am on this little planet I expect to love a lot of people and I hope they will love me in return.

When I walk in the door sometimes, I'm already an anomaly. Because I'm working in a genre that African-American's don't typically engage in.

Energy falls just short of being joy.

Actors are seen as celebrities, but they're just real people with families.