You know, modern liberals are just, I think frankly, totally off the deep end... their only answer is to yell racism and hide.

One morning, just like 9/11, there's going to be a disaster. I have yet to see the United Nations do anything effective with either Iran or North Korea.

The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument.

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.

All unemployment compensation should be tied to a job training requirement. Now the fact is, 99 weeks is an associate degree.

President Obama has created at least three jobs that I know of - Bob McDonnell, Chris Christie, and Scott Brown.

It may just be because I get homesick, but I have concluded Washington's cherry blossoms are just plain overrated.

I don't see how the party that says it's the party of the family is going to adopt an immigration policy which destroys families that have been here a quarter century.

I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual; I'm too abstract; I think too much.

If Thomas Edison invented electric light today, Dan Rather would report it on CBS News as, 'Candle-making industry threatened'.

The most important social welfare program in America is a job.

Don't just become a monument of information, rather a solace of knowledge refuge.

I had thought about it so often - too often, to the point where it had distorted my sense of time.

Elvis Presley wore a Star of David and a cross around his neck and, when someone asked him about it, he said, "It makes me think." I love that quote. It's simple. It's beautiful. It's true.

Do not spit gum in the drinking fountains.

I'm never trying to preach to anybody with my music, but I'm aware of the universal nature of the human experience and I try to reach out and connect with people in that manner.

Every person born in this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique.

You know, it is said that we Greeks are a fervent and warm blooded breed. Well, let me tell you something - it is true.

For me, the most fascinating interface is Twitter. I have odd cosmic thoughts every day and I realized I could hold them to myself or share them with people who might be interested.

I'm always open to new stuff. I don't sit and try to figure out what to do, I just wait for an idea to come.

And so when I graduated I moved to New York, and I was waitressing here and auditioning - and I got my first job pretty soon after.