People in positions of power and privilege have a duty to perform at a higher level. If not them, then who?

I've never been a fan of presidents who place blame on their predecessors or who accept credit for events that couldn't have been engineered so soon in their tenure.

For justice to have any meaning, it must also mean that no innocent person should ever be executed.

It is entirely possible that Limbaugh himself never needed contraception in college, but virtue in the absence of opportunity is hardly a moral triumph.

If you don't like tomato soup, you don't buy tomato soup.

It's impossible to expect polite behavior from people who've never witnessed it.

Allow me to introduce myself. I am a traitor and an idiot. Also, my mother should have aborted me and left me in a dumpster, but since she didn't, I should 'off' myself.

Great nations don't have to remind others of their greatness. They merely have to be great.

But principles defended at the expense of pragmatic application is the business of priests.

Freedom is a messy affair, and sometimes people get their feelings hurt but we think the trade-off is worth the aggravation.

I feel that life is short, so we should be disciplined, but at the same time we should have a good time.

Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make sure they get poetry in the curriculum early.

I went to church and couldn't swallow it. The music was nice but I don't belong there.

They say the sea is cold, but the sea contains the hottest blood of all, and the wildest, the most urgent.

I didn't know your identity, but I had an impression of who my opponent was, being surrounded by things you made.

Power in this country is often like hemophilia; it passes through women and then men get it.

I'm in full support of that technique [meditation] , and what David Lynch is doing. It's very important.

One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it.

See, broken things always have a story, don't they?

I don't do damsel in distress very well. It's hard for me to play a victim.