Every accepted public quote

“The dome of the U.S. Capitol has fallen into severe disrepair... As the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration, which oversees matters of the Capitol's physical plant,...”

“I'm a prosecutor first and foremost, and as a judge, I put people in jail for extended periods of time when that was appropriate.”

“There's the Draymond Green you see out on the floor. But that's not me. I mean, it is, but there's more. People see the fiery guy, the competitive guy, the trash talk and everything. But the...”

“I love interacting with the fans and being a positive role model for little girls.”

“Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.”

“There is no more important thing in life than balancing. This is how much we deal with work, sport, spirituality, family. If we forget one of these things, all the rest is going wrong. All y...”

“Science, you don't know, looks like magic.”

“You need basically some accountability rules, which means democratic checks and balances at the euro zone level, and definitely, you have to increase convergence in terms of taxes, in terms...”

“I was in Christian broadcasting back in the 1970s. I was director of communications for James Robinson, and I really thought Christian broadcasting was going to be my career. There have been...”

“I think the humor of double puns is incredible.”

“If I were a writer, the Pulitzer Prize would be important to me. This is my profession, so an Oscar is important.”

“Tea Party people know that I stood against the Wall Street scam from Day One, that I voted against TARP, that I voted against repealing Glass-Steagall Act that kept these guys under some con...”

“Our port facilities should have the freedom to levy a market-based container fee which will provide new revenue and make our system more equitable to the American taxpayer and American manuf...”

“I laugh when Floyd Mayweather says that if he went back in time he would beat us all. I'll tell you this: if he was in the same era as Hagler and Hearns and Leonard and me, I don't think he...”

“Dominance is only for GOD.”

“Since the world has existed, there has been injustice. But it is one world, the more so as it becomes smaller, more accessible. There is just no question that there is more obligation that t...”

“There is no illusion greater than fear.”

“I had some pretty good teachers. I learned how to play the game the right way.”

“Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.”

“Kids are different from adults. They are not as developed as far as brain science, controlling impulses, and maturity, and fall prey to all kinds of pressures.”

“Internet mailing lists are like Fox television shows. They have really cool previews, and they get you all excited about them, but they just don't live up to their promises.”

“We don't need to clear the 4 to 6 percent of the Earth's surface remaining in tropical rain forests, with most of the animal and plant species living there.”

“An open-minded person running a business might catch a problem faster than a closed-minded person. And when they identify a problem, they can fix it much faster.”

“I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.”

“After 12 years, the old butterflies came back. Well, I guess at my age you call them moths.”

“A huge dollar bill is the most accurate way to teach children the real motto of the United States: In the Almighty Dollar We Trust... Until the average American realizes that capitalism dama...”

“Time abides long enough for those who make use of it.”

“Dream big work hard.”

“I tend to write during the day so I can see my children at night. But if my kids aren't with me and I have a chunk of time when I'm a single woman living in my house for a miraculous week, I...”

“Looting and site destruction are global problems. We have a tough road ahead, and one key will be developing more collaborations and using new technologies like satellite imagery.”

“After an extensive interview he arranged for my weaknesses in foreign languages to be over-looked and so I started a Biology degree at Birmingham in 1967.”

“I think my dad really wanted me to survive the world. He knew as a psychologist how difficult the world is, and I think he wanted me to be tough.”

“I wanted to explore the values that are at work, underpinning my life.”

“My site is a little unorthodox without being totally inaccessible.”

“A good reputation is more valuable than money.”

“Personally, I am thrilled that I can now let my characters clasp a rosary, mention confession or invoke the intercession of a saint without it being edited out of my story.”

“My goal from the very beginning was to make very visually lush, juicy films that you can really sink your teeth into. That's always been part of my modus operandi.”

“The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.”

“People, certainly in the U.K., look down on screenwriting as an art form, but I love the discipline of it. Next to the bagginess of novel writing, it almost feels like a martial art.”

“People go on exploration; they're trying to find places that weren't known before. But it is an inevitable fact of research, as is in any other form of exploration of the unknown, that some...”

“Once, at Thanksgiving, a neighbor wandered in while my cousin Lisa worked on a turkey, shearing meat off its frame and sliding the steaming slices onto a big flowered plate. 'Hey, that's the...”

“They'll say you are bad or perhaps you are mad or at least you should stay undercover. Your mind must be bare if you would dare to think you can love more than one lover.”

“The United States never stopped conspiring against the Arab world, which holds the largest oil reserves on the planet.”

“Protection of private property is a fundamental right protected in a strong democracy.”

“The total absence of humour from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.”

“Be bold. But not bold, be fucking bold.”

“Following the light in the sky this Christmas season. It illuminates hearts hidden by egos.”

“When you sow your seed, when you perform your beneficence, your act of charity, in whatever shape or form, you surrender some party of your personality and absorb a part of another; you comm...”