Once an innovation is implemented it is no longer innovative.

It's my father's legacy. My father's view was that the public is the employer of these government employees and has the right to know what they're up to.

The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark.

I don't like to hurt people, I really don't like it at all. But in order to get a red light at the intersection, you sometimes have to have an accident.

That's a great team we lost to. It just wasn't our day.

The insurance industry communicates through codes and check-off boxes. If there's no check-off box for you, you don't exist.

I believe our country is strong enough to be criticized.

Indeed, the U.N. is the main Soviet espionage center in this country.

I look at the universe and I know there's an architect.

Love is ignites the light in the spirit

I live in different worlds. One world where I perform my duty as a part of society. My favorite is my world. The writing's world.

It was a simple truth he had understood for years, people hurt others when they are hurt, and hurting them back won't make a damn difference.

The mere ambition to write a poem is enough to kill it.

There's small choice in rotten apples.

To be a queen of a household is a powerful thing.

The way to be successful is through preparation. It doesn't just happen. You don't wake up one day and discover you're a lawyer any more than you wake up as a pro football player. It takes time.

God has saved me a million times, so I think He mustve enjoyed my song.

If I can go through what I've been through and do a television show with my son and then be a boy from the hood making records for the people I make records for, that's reality.

I tell ya, my wife, we get along good cause we have our own arrangement. I mean, one night a week I go out with the boys and one night a week, she goes out with the boys.