The water cooler conversation in every job I've had is sports, it's what did you do this weekend, it's how are your parents doing.

Growing up, I always had two interests and two passions; one being public service and the other being the arts and acting.

The point of serving your country is not to do your own thing or to go rogue, but to work as part of the process.

My folks are in Jersey. And I have a lot of friends and other family there. So, I try to visit as much as possible.

To the folks walking around the District of Columbia, I would say this: Be careful.

I think the media loves taking the most absurd clips for a sport that has become congressional politics.

I'm also politically independent so I'm not a fan of either the Democrats in Congress or the Republicans in Congress.

Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense as opposed to what's actually done.

In many ways, I feel like having the opportunity to play Gogol in 'The Namesake' really was my dream role in many ways.

Don’t be the person who has an overflowing cup of knowledge but an inactive state of action. That serves no-one, that serves no purpose.

Progress does not compel us to settle centuries-long debates about the role of government for all time, but it does require us to act in our time.

I often traveled to Nicaragua to speak against repressive policies by the Sandinista government.

This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you.

Literature is subservient to nothing but truth.

I am a person who holds the aesthetic high. I have suits made in Savile Row.

The early Billy Joel stuff I fell in love with, like Glass Houses, is a real rock record.

I was a big Mickey Rourke fan in his first incarnation. I thought that at the time he was America's greatest screen actor.

The miracle stories of the New Testament can no longer be interpreted in a post-Newtonian world as supernatural events performed by an incarnate deity.

Patriotic is saying, government, you know, you're not always the solution.