Every accepted public quote

“I've always overworked in the weight room. I love working with weights. I knew they'd give me the strength I needed.”

“The Federal Reserve is not charged with designing or evaluating proposals for housing finance reform. But we are responsible for regulating and supervising banking institutions to ensure the...”

“Fake people can be silenced with truth.”

“A good wife is someone who thinks she has done everything right: raising the kids, being there for the husband, being home, trying to do it all.”

“When he looks at me, the way he looks at me... He does not know, what I lack... Or - how - I am incomplete. He sees me, for what I - am, as I am. He's happy - to see me. Every time. Every da...”

“I will not quit this game because of what the media has done to me.”

“I like something you can hum along to.”

“Sometimes you struggle so hard to feed your family one way, you forget to feed them the other way, with spiritual nourishment. Everybody needs that.”

“I'm worried about the future of America insofar as our academically most promising students are being funneled through the cookie-cutter Ivy League and other elite schools and emerging with...”

“I'm not the type to cut back on hot showers, but there's no harm in hot water when it's warmed by the sun.”

“I am in favor of high wages and agree that the higher the wages, the stronger the evidence of prosperity, provided (and that is the important point) they are so naturally, by the effectivene...”

“I'm from Santa Cruz in Northern California, and the 49ers were my dad and I's bonding time.”

“I don't think I'm a great singer myself. I'm all right. I've worked with different writers, different producers... I've just been blessed with the caliber of people I've been able to work wi...”

“I do a lot of laughing at my own self in life, so I think I come at things with a pretty easygoing view.”

“I run three to four times a week. I go down to Orange County in California and I run all the time... all the time. You see the oceans, the trees. I like running in hot weather. I like to swe...”

“The aspirations of democracy are based on the notion of an informed citizenry, capable of making wise decisions. The choices we are asked to make become increasingly complex. They require th...”

“I've got this theory that human beings are innately religious; we have a belief system. It doesn't have to be a theist form, necessarily. But we need a belief system, some framework on which...”

“People are always complaining that life's not fair, but that simply isn't true. Life is extraordinarily fair. It's just not centered on you.”

“I just wanted to do a music show, with the whole realm of music from Ella Fitzgerald to rock bands like Cream to Kenny Rogers. We had a lot of country, but we did every kind of music. The Mo...”

“Chicago '68 was a relatively small demonstration for its time, but I've talked to millions of people who claim they were there because it felt like we were all there. Everyone from our gener...”

“Fighting is dancing. Look at a great boxing match, and it's a dancing.”

“We all want what every girl wants: to look fabulous while we're out there ruling the world.”

“All sorts of artillery installations, rockets and tank units that are firing on civilians in Kosovo should be neutralized. If that means air strikes, then NATO should carry out air strikes.”

“When I first started shooting 'Sharpe,' back in the early 1990s, I'd kiss my two elder daughters goodbye at the end of August - Evie wasn't even born then - and I wouldn't see them again unt...”

“I've noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it's far enough in the future.”

“The windfall of great riches can, if mismanaged, make things worse, not better, for the recipients.”

“What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.”

“Everybody had heard the rumours that Real wanted to sign James Rodriguez after the World Cup, and I knew that they were going to sell me to make room for him.”

“I think history would say that medical research has, throughout many changes of parties, remained as one of the shining lights of bipartisan agreement, that people are concerned about health...”

“'The Simpsons' was about children and married parents; 'Futurama' is about people in between; they're growing up and haven't settled down. Every other cartoon show seemed to be, you know, du...”

“Here's how much I know about hockey. Mike Royko and I were in a tiny bar one winter night, and the radio kept reporting goals by the Blackhawks. I mentioned how frequently the team was scori...”

“Marx and Engels never talked about murdering the bourgeois. According to the old bourgeois concept, the judges were the ones who judged, and the executioners were the ones who executed.”

“The best kind of accountability on a team is peer-to-peer. Peer pressure is more efficient and effective than going to the leader, anonymously complaining, and having them stop what they are...”

“When you're winning games, everyone thinks everything the manager says and does is fantastic. Then it goes the other way, and those earlier criticisms of players can backfire.”

“You used to need a big camera to direct, but now, anyone with an iPhone can tell a story visually. You can film something. You can start off with a five-minute story, then a 10-minute story.”

“When that book came out, it was like Columbus telling about America at the court of Ferdinand and Isabella.”

“Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.”

“I did not want to be the best black man of the year; I wanted to be the best man of the year.”

“We are from the very middle class family. We have not come from the English medium school. We came from our regional languages school.”

“I probably wouldn't be a good spokesman for an electric car, because I'll still get on a private jet, and one flight on a private jet undoes all my electric-car good deeds.”

“The shortest answer is doing the thing.”

“I always knew I'd keep at it with the plodding doggedness that I used to master lump-less gravy and wriggle out of fitness classes; I always knew I'd get a zillion rejection slips. I figured...”

“I'd do another Cortana advert, I don't see why not.”

“I am excited about focusing full-time on talking about my job-creation agenda and building a new economy for Washington state. We have a great chance to seize our own destiny, build our own...”

“I think it's very important to have a public discussion about why we're denying our soldiers the ability to exercise their Second Amendment rights.”

“For the Celts, the world is always latently and actively spiritual.”

“All pitchers are liars or crybabies.”

“Europeans forget that one-third of the American people have had a personal conversation with Jesus Christ and that the born-again are not just little old ladies in black but also CEOs and pr...”