Every accepted public quote

“The United Nations should serve as a forum to address our common challenges. And it must also be a space to generate solutions for mutual benefit. This is the very essence of what the United...”

“The '20s ended in an era of extravagance, sort of like the one we're in now. There was a big crash, but then the country picked itself up again, and we had some great years. Those were the d...”

“And if you have high cholesterol, you would feel the same as if you had low cholesterol because there are no side effects, no symptoms of having high cholesterol.”

“When I was going to gay bars in my 20s and 30s, the older guys there explained to me that the police would occasionally raid these places and march the clients out, load them onto paddy wago...”

“No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.”

“The detail adds an element of unexpected something. All fiction is false; what makes it convincing is that it runs alongside the truth. The real world has lots of incidental details, so a pa...”

“At noon, on the Fourth of July, 1826, while the Liberty Bell was again sounding its old message to the people of Philadelphia, the soul of Thomas Jefferson passed on; and a few hours later J...”

“What was so good about it was that the set that they originally built stayed there, and weathered over the five years. It got five summers and five winters of weather. It became more and mor...”

“Right knows no boundaries, and justice no frontiers; the brotherhood of man is not a domestic institution.”

“Our vision is for a country that grows what it eats and produces what it consumes. It is for a country that no longer has to import petroleum products and develop a lucrative petrochemical i...”

“When you're 0-2 in the Super Bowl, they say unkind things about you. They say, 'He can't win the big one.' And that's the worst thing that can be said about you.”

“Blacks in the Caribbean, Britain, Canada and sub-Saharan Africa as well as in the United States have low IQ scores relative to whites.”

“When I'm not working, I would kill to have some sort of creative outlet other than, say, a coloring book. And when I'm working, I want to do all those things I was griping about - you know,...”

“Disability is a matter of perception. If you can do just one thing well, you're needed by someone.”

“Mama is my chance to be a stand-up comedian. In my mind, it's my chance to be Chris Rock.”

“I bought my wife Leighanne a silver BMW Z8 sports car one Christmas and tied it up with a big red bow in the driveway of our house.”

“More than anything tough, I play 'Madden'. I'm a football guy at heart; maybe I should have played football for a living instead, because I play a lot of football videogames. I'm really into...”

“But I don't think of any particular viewer in mind other than myself.”

“It's a very rich brew that's in your psyche by the time you're in your 60s, and I think that's rather interesting. It makes you feel you've lived a very long life; it's like going on holiday...”

“Many weight issues stem from illness, be it physical or, indeed, emotional. And a large portion of people who sometimes struggle to maintain a 'healthy' weight deal daily with their own self...”

“Lady Gaga listens to me. Her mantra is only one word - 'Bikram' - because Bikram makes her what she is today. It works.”

“I got into gambling when I was playing a casino. I was a hermit in those days. I would go onstage, go to my room, or if we had to travel, I'd get in a car or a plane, whatever. But I didn't...”

“I loved you because. You were like a cold breeze of sultry summer for me. I don't know, Why my heart pumped so fast? My words inevitably betrayed me. Your single look was like spring in dess...”

“Oftentimes, when you have a huge studio film and you have big names attached, they like to keep attaching big names.”

“I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump.”

“I'm human, I'm not perfect. I make mistakes all the time, but I guess my job is to keep those mistakes to myself, which I'm already fine doing and just try to be the best I can be for those...”

“I have a theory that all abuse, no matter what kind of abuse it is, is foremost an assault on the mind.”

“Really, each era has its own false nostalgia. We all put a picket fence up around something. For my generation it was the '50s, and for other generations it will be something else. Change is...”

“I am confident that every action we took as the FBI detained individuals in the wake of 9/11 was appropriately done.”

“The cardinals have elected me, a simple, humble worker in the Lord's vineyard.”

“Money has no grey areas. You either make it or you lose it.”

“I don't have a partner, so I take care of the mortgage by myself, and I was thinking, 'Oh God, I'm going to have to sell the house or find a new career.' I was not in a good place, but it wa...”

“If you play this game long enough, you're going to get your tail kicked at least once.”

“Of course things get stagnant; people get too used to their environment, but that's why I'm in my district every week, at meetings with my constituents.”

“A home should be an intimate autobiography of the things that you like. One of the things I'm so keen on expressing is that, if you don't do it for yourself, if you're always seeking affirma...”

“I like video games, but they're really violent. I'd like to play a video game where you help the people who were shot in all the other games. It'd be called 'Really Busy Hospital.”

“I have a fairly normal domestic life.”

“And after about two years, I realized that creative writing was not going to help you ace those biological tests. So I switched over to journalism. I didn't graduate with honors, but I did g...”

“Money dignifies what is frivolous if unpaid for.”

“Shall I believe in a man. Yet doubt my Maker? No this ought not to be so.”

“I'm not worried too much about left, right spectrum; I'm worried about what's actually going to work to help Canadians who are worried about their own jobs, about their kids' jobs.”

“Instead of looking outside of ourselves and counting potential enemies, fasting summons us to turn our glance inward, and to take the measure of our greatest challenge: the self, the ego, in...”

“You can train to be ready for the nerves, and we simulate it all the time, but it's never the same when it actually matters.”

“You can rebel against everything adults say. When I want to find out what the new music is, I find out what parents hate.”

“There are intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters.”

“This life that has been given to us as a gift, as such a precious gift. To really try to understand it, really try to recognize it, is the greatest meditation. Through the media of this Know...”

“We are increasingly becoming a pluralistic nation.”

“Ye may have a greater prince, but ye shall never have a more loving prince.”