In the best possible scenario, whenever you get notes from people, they're good notes, and they see things that you wouldn't have seen otherwise, and they make you a better writer.

The fact that slavery is written into the Constitution is about as entrenched a form of classism as you could possibly imagine.

We all experience power struggles in our lives - at the workplace, with our friends, in our love lives. In a way, we're all politicians.

When you have both parties who will not find ways to compromise, who won't meet in the middle, you have paralysis. It's the perversion of idealism.

If you work hard and play by the rules, you'll have a better life than your parents did, and your children will have a better life than you did.

My jobs on campaigns were pretty low on the totem pole - I was an advance man.

When you're creating new roles out of scratch in my opinion working with the actors is a great asset. You can learn a lot from that.

I don't think that Washington is a fundamentally bad or corrupt place.

You just have to re-wire your brain when you’re shifting from the stage to the screen, or the silver screen or the HD flat screen.

The checks and balances is a way to prevent government from either devolving into an autocratic tyranny or an autocratic mob mentality.

It's so warm now, and Thanksgiving came so early - is it just me, or does it not really feel like Ramadan?

I try to hire people who will challenge and have the humility to be challenged - people who have basically good values.

I meet hundreds of people, and I'm not going to remember them. But every single one of them will remember their interaction with me.

There is no better time than right now to start your own "family tradition" of helping needy children.

Cooperation isn't the absence of conflict but a means of managing conflict.

I was just a quiet kid, really. I wasn't the class clown at all.

I am one of the sort that lives by throwing stones at other people's glass houses, but I never mean to put up one for them to stone.

I'm making plans to go away for a month to focus on my sobriety and to continue my life in recovery. Please enjoy making fun of me on the world wide web.

Your feelings are cosmic communication! The good feelings mean, GOOD FOR YOU. The bad feelings are to get your attention so that you will change what you are focusing on.

Men hate more steadily than they love.