If you wave a flag, make it an American Flag.

Let me be clear - no one is above the law. Not a politician, not a priest, not a criminal, not a police officer. We are all accountable for our actions.

I got to grow up with a mother who taught me to believe in me.

I'm not looking for a battle with anybody, neither the council nor our labor partners.

We in Los Angeles, who have ourselves been helped to stand up - to recover and rebuild after a disaster - want to help the families and communities of the Gulf Coast,.

Actually, as president of the Conference of Mayors, we passed the Simpson-Bowles plan as a template, as a template, as a frame work for moving forward and the president has done the same.

You can't just trot out a brown face or a Spanish surname and expect people are going to vote for your party or your candidate.

You all know I love L.A., but tonight I really love L.A.

I'm not one of the people who have to be in public office.

We're not a homogeneous party, anymore than the Republicans are. But we are a party that I think has a plan to take us forward.

Again, if I was going to call Romney and the Republicans stupid, I'm certainly not going to call the Democrats and President Obama stupid.

Our names were made for us in another century.

Running away is vastly underrated.

I got involved with classical music when I was in high school and it's followed me throughout my entire life and probably had a profound effect on my life.

Music is the language of the heart, and conservatives always screw it up.

In cases in which the related previous personality had committed suicide, the subject has shown an inclination to contemplate and threaten suicide.

This outfit called Los Angeles Theatre Works does readings of plays.

The thing is, 75 percent of design today is absolutely outdated. It all has to be redesigned with the materials and knowledge that we now have. We know so much more than what we are doing.

Seek not a lighthouse greater than the human mind! Believe not the existence of an emotion nobler than the compassion!

Harold, the young kids out there are not going to be willing to go to the barricades in defense of lowered transaction costs.