Every accepted public quote

“Judy Miller is the most innocent person in this case. I really thought that was outrageous that she was jailed and we needed as journalists to draw a line in the sand in a strong but thought...”

“I'd forget the piece just before I went out to do the concerto, the panic was too great. This was not anything that gave me pleasure. This was fulfilling somebody else's dream.”

“I thought then, and I think now, that the invasion of Iraq was unnecessary and unjust. And I think the premises on which it was launched were false.”

“I am not allowed to be afraid. My mother made me like that. As a child, if I was afraid of the dark, she would lock me in the closet. Things like this. And she would talk about the time she...”

“Until Amazon creates a drone that can cut your hair, there's a physical and real reason to come to the store.”

“I wouldn't, a little bit frightened but throughout my life I'd learnt that when you're in the serious situations, you've got to try to stay calm. Because that's the way you get out of them.”

“People resist a census, but give them a profile page and they'll spend all day telling you who they are.”

“I think everyone became sick of Sheryl Crow. I actually became sick of Sheryl Crow.”

“I'm just a lad playing for Liverpool, trying to achieve his dream, so to see a lad with my name on his shirt - when I grew up having the names of other players on my shirt - it meant a lot.”

“Whether you breach the Fourth Amendment 20 percent of the time or 100 percent of the time, it's still not the point. The point is whether or not you still collect millions of people's inform...”

“I don't really have a metaphor for how I write, but it kinda feels like chipping away at a big dark object that I can't really see.”

“If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.”

“There is no one that cannot make an impact in this world.”

“The fantastic thing about the memorial to the Newfoundland Regiment at Beaumont-Hamel is that it's one of the rare examples where they've preserved a battlefield more or less as it was. You...”

“I'm pretty good at surprising friends and family with gifts. I tend to go towards the more sentimental side of giving.”

“My wife, Melissa, and I, together with our neighbors, try to create experiences for our kids that build character. We want our kids to exercise their muscles and their minds.”

“At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.”

“Learning that we have a scapegoat is to lose it forever and to expose ourselves to mimetic conflicts with no possible resolution.”

“I think that the public debate that we had on the Iran deal was very important. That's probably one of the most consequential things most of us will ever vote on ; a nuclear arms control agr...”

“We're now seeing email that people thought they had deleted showing up as evidence in court. You can't erase email. As that becomes more commonly realized, people will be a little wiser abou...”

“Everyone has a story that makes me stronger. I know that the work I do is important and I enjoy it, but it is nice to hear the feedback of what we do to inspire others.”

“I've always been curious about why one man jumps out of a foxhole with a grenade and charges a machine gun nest, and his buddy next to him sits there cowering. And my feeling is that the dif...”

“Of course I make mistakes. I'm human. If I didn't make mistakes, I'd never learn. You can only go forward by making mistakes.”

“The Russian people have their own cultural code, their own tradition.”

“Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.”

“Founding a company is a sheer act of will and tenacity in the face of immense skepticism from everyone - investors, customers, friends, family, and employees, to name a few.”

“I want people to be the authors of their own life story.”

“I'm working now on a collection of Shakespearean sonnets, about 100 of them, that I may publish if anyone's interested. My take on life is a little different from the bard's.”

“I just never saw my mother in any other room but the kitchen. There were always pots going.”

“Being healthy is not just about building a body: it is a lifestyle that manifests itself in your general outlook. It makes you more positive and optimistic and increases your energy level.”

“I really have a deep sense of caring about the air that we breathe and the water that we drink. I want to be able to say that I was trying to protect that. And I also care deeply about child...”

“Some historians subsequently said that the twentieth century actually started in 1914, when war broke out, because it was first war in history in which so many countries took part, in which...”

“Two of the chief defenders of the faith in the Old Testament and in the New - Moses and Paul - were both well-versed in the language, the thinking, and the philosophy of their cultures.”

“To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.”

“Pergamon, a prosperous city in western Anatolia, was fabled to have been founded by Hercules' son. Like many Hellenistic cities populated by Greeks who intermarried with indigenous people, P...”

“Too many people go into existing organizations and define success as recreating what is there. To be successful as a startup organization within a large, established culture, you really need...”

“It's the most rewarding thing to be a civil servant.”

“I want first-time offenders to think of their appearance in my courtroom as the second-worst experience of their lives - circumcision being the first.”

“I remember when Meryl Streep did an ad for American Express, the press harassed her.”

“To this day people will say, 'What do you think about doing 'Playboy?'' I feel honored to be a part of that bit of history with Hugh Hefner. No regrets.”

“There's times when I'm cleaning the kitchen, and while I'm doing that, I'm singing and air guitaring with a broom to 'You Should Be Dancing.'”

“The Domain Name Server (DNS) is the Achilles heel of the Web. The important thing is that it's managed responsibly.”

“More reforms will give more impetus to German industries to invest in India. German companies want to be treated on par with Indian companies, and creation of an equitable market is crucial...”

“On marriage: You sort of stumble along and reconnect and lose each other and reconnect again.”

“We're so much more likely to feel sympathy for an animal than another person; thus, the best fiction uses animals to define truly humane behavior.”

“I was a musician and did moderately well at that. I made an enjoyable living as a very young man, but I think as I became more comfortable and knowledgeable about myself and what I wanted, I...”

“'The Girls' tells the story of Rose and Ruby Darlen, who are not only literally but spiritually attached for eternity. Born joined at the head in 1974 to a feckless teenage mother who abando...”

“In the movie 'Wall Street' I play Gordon Gekko, a greedy corporate executive who cheated to profit while innocent investors lost their savings. The movie was fiction, but the problem is real...”