Every accepted public quote

“I really can't pinpoint the one moment when I said I want to be a comic.”

“Some extremists take elements of the sacred scriptures out of context.”

“There's a general understanding amongst, I think, most people in this country that whether or not you have a preexisting condition, it's not your fault, and you shouldn't be discriminated ag...”

“I think you can do a lot, like describing people with their physical characteristics, things like that, but to me, I've always found it to be a much more informative question to ask somebody...”

“I remember watching steak being cooked on TV and wanting to try it. As a special treat, my mother cooked it for me, and I thought this would be the time I would eat with a knife and fork. Al...”

“Like the phoenix, socialism is reborn from every pile of ashes left day in, day out, by burnt-out human dreams and charred hopes.”

“Enchantment lies in everyday moments if you are observant.”

“My mom had a heart attack, and it came out of nowhere - she was 54. My dad had leukemia for about 3 months. He was 80 when he passed. My dad had me later in life, and so he had leukemia and...”

“Texans have in common with Australians, in that they are quite strong, hardy people.”

“There has been a great laziness in my soul. Lots of days I could write songs, but I could also take my $400 and play the slot machines at the riverfront casino.”

“Fame is empowering. My mistake was that I thought I would instinctively know how to handle it. But there's no manual, no training course.”

“Sunset is still my favorite color, and rainbow is second.”

“I've always looked up to Amy Poehler and, obviously, people like Adam Sandler, Will Ferrell, Mel Brooks, and the 'Monty Python' guys.”

“For decades, I have cringed whenever someone called me 'illegal,' as if I'm an insect on someone's back. I found out I didn't have the right papers - that I was here illegally - when I tried...”

“Like all of us, we have pretty serious mood swings.”

“Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance.”

“Alibaba is an ecosystem that helps small business to grow.”

“You wouldn't want to be called a sell-out by selling a product. Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.”

“In 2011, at least a third of middle school and high school students who smoked cigars used flavored little cigars. Six states - Florida, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Wi...”

“The potential for regional conflict in the absence of an internationally active America is real.”

“There is no doubt in my mind Bill Cosby was a bad boy.”

“The trees in Siberia are miles apart, that is why the dogs are so fast.”

“The Thorn Birds' by Colleen McCullough. I took it on a holiday to Greece and just fell in love with it.”

“It took me a while to learn that certain people may have important skills that are not always blazingly apparent. Gradually I came to realize - slow as I may have been - that what mattered w...”

“The country badly needs to have a right-of-center political party, grounded in traditional values that the Republican Party represented till it didn't.”

“Stuttering is painful. In Sunday school, I'd try to read my lessons, and the children behind me were falling on the floor with laughter.”

“The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands.”

“Pogba is a great player and left Juve by his own decision. It makes sense that he is singled out at any club - and even more so at United.”

“Policy makers, like most people, normally feel that they already know all the psychology and all the sociology they are likely to need for their decisions. I don't think they are right, but...”

“Earnestness and sincereness are synonymous.”

“One of the best ways to stop the failed policies coming out of Congress is to bring in the ideas and the involvement of the American people, which the America Speaking Out project is designe...”

“I was singing a lot of waltzes. And I was with Jerry Kennedy, my producer, and he was playing me some songs, and he said, hey, I want to play you this song that I'm going to get Jackie Ward...”

“My eldest son George had acute myeloid leukaemia when he was a tiny baby, he is now 20 and doing very well. He is a mini-miracle in many ways.”

“So that was Reagan's political problem. As a rancher in California, he was an environmentalist himself. But the President of the United States doesn't control everything that happens in Wash...”

“If God is omnipotent and omniscient, why didn't he start the universe out in the first place so it would come out the way he wants? Why's he constantly repairing and complaining? No, there's...”

“My biggest challenge for myself is to be the best father I can be and be the best husband I can be.”

“Individuals fail to recognise how their perennial state of sleep deficiency has come to compromise their mental aptitude and physical vitality, including the slow accumulation of ill health.”

“Whereas you have someone like Houdini, who works really, really hard to get really, really famous, and then has actual intellectual ideas that he puts into the culture that stay there.”

“Anybody can have a birthday. It requires nothing. Murderers have birthdays. It's the opposite of anything that I believe in. And I don't like at work where you stop everything to sing 'Happy...”

“As I explored Trump's inextricable relationship with his commercial brand, and its implications for the future of politics, I began to see why so many of the attacks on him have failed to st...”

“It's hard not to feel happy when you make someone smile.”

“Great minds think alike because a greater Mind is thinking through them.”

“Was it not worth the loss of a little immortality to have that strange mix of innocence and strength close to him?”

“All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites.”

“We have this incredible ability to communicate with each other. I want to play around with it, see what this mass audience is really capable of.”

“Electing radical reformers as district attorneys is huge. It's essential.”

“I've never thought about songwriting as a weapon. I've only thought about it as a way to help me get through love and loss and sadness and loneliness and growing up.”

“The blessings of the priesthood are available to every righteous man and woman. We may all receive the Holy Ghost, obtain personal revelation, and be endowed in the temple, from which we eme...”