Every accepted public quote

“The United States encouraged Iraqis to rise up after Saddam Hussein's army was driven out of Kuwait. Washington assumed Saddam was weak after losing the 1991 Gulf War. Iraqis rose up, but Sa...”

“What we can say with confidence is that the technological revolution is worsening inequality, due mostly to mechanisms that limit free markets. It is also bringing about disruptive change th...”

“A man's car is like an extension of their ego and their manhood.”

“The voters of the country decide who they want to support, and the delegates are elected to also make a determination of who would be in the best interest of the party and the country to be...”

“When you get hungry enough, you find yourself speaking Spanish pretty well.”

“An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.”

“In order to resist injuries and stay healthy, you have to be mobile and agile. You have to be able to have your body work for you.”

“Novelists are no more moral or certain than anybody else; we are ideologically adrift, and if we are any good then our writing will live in several places at once. That is both our curse and...”

“I love to be in the ballpark. I love to just go in and enjoy a great baseball game, a great pitchers' duel.”

“Instead of candidates hiring people, like yours truly, to create campaign media that works on both conscious and subconscious levels to sway the voting public, what if all TV ads were, by la...”

“I'm just a nerd at heart, and I'm actually quite nice.”

“You literally cannot deny the fact that rock and roll was born because of blues, and blues is black man's music.”

“Usually time alters and affects everything, but when someone you love dies time cannot change that, no amount of time will ever change that, so time stops having any meaning.”

“When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.”

“This is a global economy. If you're not at the bargaining table, if you don't get an agreement, someone else does.”

“I had male breast cancer and had dual radical modified mastectomy, and I've spent a lot of time working with the Susan G. Komen foundation to make men aware of male breast cancer - if you ha...”

“It was something of a personal challenge for me to come up with a business suitable for the Internet world and the Internet age.”

“Competition is the best way to ensure prescription drugs are affordable.”

“I've never sold widely enough to be able to relax about money. I had two kids and their mother to support and my own life. So there was never an option of cutting out.”

“Loki in 'Thor' is the most incredible springboard into a sort of excavation of the darker aspects of human nature. So that was thrilling, coming back knowing that I'd built the boat and now...”

“Myth is a powerful medium because it talks to the emotions and not the head. It moves us into an area of mystery.”

“We don't tell the officials to change the standard for the playoffs, but as we all know, time and space tends to evaporate very quickly in a playoff game; there tends to be a lot more physic...”

“Why is it okay to write a work of literary fiction where horrible, explicit things happen, where you can't write a book of humor where silly, explicit things are happening?”

“Thought is an errand boy, fear a mine of worries.”

“If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television shows are made inside your television set?”

“'Don Quixote' is a very political book that has been used by diplomats, politicians, guerrilla fighters, to inspire people, to convince them that they themselves can become quixotic. George...”

“The truth is what facts are. I like facts. I like things to line up and be clear, and when we are honest and true about things, it helps things to make sense, and it cuts out a lot of the fa...”

“I thought Microsoft did a lot of things that were good and right building parts of the browser into the operating system. Then I thought it out and came up with reasons why it was a monopoly...”

“Simply awareness will make you see, what has been, what will be and what could be.”

“You have to go out of your way as a suspense novelist to find situations where the protagonists are somewhat helpless and in real danger.”

“Journeys end in lovers meeting, Every wise man's son doth know.”

“The church wasn't an organization in the first century. They weren't writing checks or buying property. The church has matured and developed over the years. But for some reason, the last thi...”

“People entrust me with the responsibility of actualizing our shared values and, that said, I'm not in the business of going to try to convert people and getting their buy-in. I just do the w...”

“I never minded giving my opinions. They are just opinions, and I had studied music and I had strong feelings. I was happy for my opinions to join all the other opinions. But you have to be p...”

“God punishes us mildly by ignoring our prayers, and severely by answering them.”

“The other day the President said, I know you've had some rough times, and I want to do something that will show the nation what faith that I have in you, in your maturity and sense of respon...”

“The future of innovation has to include not only the technology, but economic viability.”

“I am a wire-walker. I can walk any time, anywhere - I'm indestructible.”

“I want to be like Tom Cruise from 'The Outsiders' and go on and do amazing movies for a long time.”

“I think it all started with Nina Simone. When I was maybe seven or eight, I used to listen to one of her albums every night before I went to sleep. For me, her voice was everything.”

“Chemistry can be a good and bad thing. Chemistry is good when you make love with it. Chemistry is bad when you make crack with it.”

“My senior year was crazy, and that summer was definitely life-changing and a lot different than what I was used to, and with that comes a lot of critique.”

“The company was now come to a halt and the first shots were fired and the grey riflesmoke rolled through the dust as the lancers breached their ranks. The kid's horse sank beneath him with a...”

“To people all over America, I say, when you have my father in your corner, you will never again have to worry about being let down. He will fight for you all the time, all the way, every tim...”

“Customary though it may be to write about that institutionalized pastime as though it existed apart from the general environment, my story does not lend itself to such treatment.”

“To me, a staircase looks like a series of dark and light horizontal stripes, which is exactly how you'd draw a staircase. So I know how the image is going to look on the page.”

“For years I heeded the warning: Do monthly breast self-exams. Like most women, I did them on a 'sort of' basis. Every few months I'd sort of do a quick feel, but never as thoroughly as the d...”

“High culture is paranoid about sentiment. But human beings are intensely sentimental.”