There is no office now closed to a Jew, including the presidency.

There is nothing to be gained by waiting for a better situation. You see where you are and you do what you can with that.

When scrutiny is lacking, tyranny, corruption and man's baser qualities have a better chance of entering into the public business of any government.

Politicians are probably the most underrated people in our society.

My thinking is Lincolnian rather than Jeffersonian, Teddy Rooseveltian rather than Franklin D. Rooseveltian.

It must be understood that, as adults, we are all terminal.

Birth and death are the most singular events we experience - and the contemplation of death, as of birth, should be a thing of beauty, not ignobility.

Business, properly understood, is so central to every aspect of our civilization that Republicans should proudly announce that they are indeed the party of business.

Im a politician. What I say is not holy writ.

You can't be a rebel without the scars that come with it. Truth is, some days scars are just as ugly as they are beautiful.

Marriage can be tricky and challenging at times.

The addict will screw you over and lie to you and do all kinds of things.

Sometimes you just create a joke out of thin air in the editing room. So I'm really glad I've had that experience. It gives me a little more confidence in front of the camera.

It's surprising how often history is decided by something as trival as bad shellfish.

When you're a monster, you are thanked and praised for not being a monster.

The education of youth, an employment of more consequence than making laws and preaching the gospel, because it lays the foundation on which both law and gospel rest for success.

The so-called miraculous powers of a great master are a natural accompaniment to his exact understanding of subtle laws that operate in the inner cosmos of consciousness.

Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.

A career public speaker is not what I'm called to be. I'm called to be a critic.