The American movement, Tea Party, whatever you want to call it, I think that is a very hopeful moment for the country and, I know, we really are the community organizers, are we not?

South Dakota is a great state because of its values, not because of dependence on government.

But to say that Sarah Palin and the tea party movement is responsible for vandalism or threats is just a way to dismiss the American people and, and their dissatisfaction with this health care bill.

There's a rule of thumb in politics. If you're at a point where you're complaining about the other guy being mean and unfair and uncivil, that's probably a sign that you're losing.

The more vile the thing that's said about me, the less it affects me. It doesn't bother me at all.

Well I think that, if you want to look at polarizing people right now, I wouldn't look at Palin, I'd look at Barack Obama.

Being a happy warrior, you also have a lot of fun in what you do because you believe in what you're doing.

If Newt Gingrich would be President tomorrow, I would be a happy person.

Incredible that liberals aren't more concerned about the monopoly of information in South Dakota.

Solutions-oriented campaigning with a little passion and a little humor; I think that will go a long way. I think people are desperate for it.

...one is reminded that [John Kerry, D-MA] really just a better-looking Ted Kennedy, a richer Michael Dukakis.

Life is but a prayer.

I think I'll always be a hopeless romantic.

I have to move away from organized religion. The toxic confusion and anger I was feeling in church had become too great.

They say I don't fight guys unless they're on a respirator. That's incorrect. They have to be at least 3 days off a respirator.

The work of art... is an instrument for tilling the human psyche, that it may continue to yield a harvest of vital beauty.

Credit card interest payments are the dumbest money of all.

Common sense is the genius of humanity.

I was looking for a last name that was a first name. Growing up, I knew a kid who was the most obnoxious kid I ever knew, and his last name was Herman.

It is ridiculous, frighteningly ridiculous to make wars in the name of peace.

The thing that always fascinated me about improv is that it's basically a happy accident that you think you're initiating.