Every accepted public quote

“Religion is the solid basis of good morals; therefore education should teach the precepts of religion, and the duties of man toward God.”

“Desire is the seed of potential.”

“In terms of being vulgar, I don't think you need to be violent unless it's slapstick, violence to yourself. That can be funny - we've all tripped and fallen on our faces.”

“District of Columbia v. Heller, which recognized an individual right to possess a firearm under the Constitution, is unquestionably the most clearly incorrect decision that the Supreme Court...”

“I grew up in a makeup chair. And to see the women around me getting ready was so aspirational. It's about mothers and daughters, a girl watching her mom at a vanity table.”

“What you do in the Lord is not in vain. You are not oiling the wheels of a machine that's about to roll over a cliff. You are not restoring a great painting that's shortly going to be thrown...”

“I will not be triumphed over.”

“The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.”

“The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.”

“There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: there exist poets who write in prose or at least in more or less apparent prose; millions o...”

“I don't know what is in store for the movie business any better than anybody else does, but it does seem like my kind of movies are a little trickier than it used to be - or maybe a lot tric...”

“I've gone out of my way to not take baggage with me from film to film.”

“A notorious network of violent Islamist hoodlums, concentrated in the rough-and-tumble district of Molenbeek in Brussels, has been operating in plain sight since the 1990s, planning, plottin...”

“There's a lot we can do to improve American's retirement security, but it's wrong to replace the guaranteed benefit that Americans have earned with a guaranteed benefit cut of forty percent...”

“After I learned the piano, I went on to learn percussion, the tuba, b-flat baritone, French horn, trombone, trumpet, most of the instruments in the orchestra. Trumpet was my instrument.”

“The faultfinder will find faults even in paradise.”

“Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.”

“I can't get that live and I don't have the time to take the tape, after I've finished recording it, into a little studio somewhere else where I can get a different kind of percussion sound.”

“If you now have 20 previews, you will regard 19 of them as super-rehearsals, which is fine, except you are being watched by thousands. I remember suggesting on more than one show over the ye...”

“It took seventeen years to get from my second novel, 'Truck,' to my third, 'Geek Love.'”

“When I was a teenager, I continued to visit imaginary places by spending all my free time at our local community theater. Whether I acted in a play or worked backstage, the world of Tennesse...”

“For me, the future isn't coming from the USA, like it was before.”

“I know there are those in the community who, rather than have us invest more in policing, even for community policing, instead want us to disinvest in the police department. We need a police...”

“'Friday Night Lights' was never a break-out hit; I'll never regret doing that show.”

“Riches, like glory or health, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleased to lend them.”

“We've got to create strategies of our own that ensure that our kids are going to get an education they need, that people are getting connected to skills and that we do more to draw investmen...”

“As a New Yorker you can't help but be proud of the fact that so much music and culture started here. Punk rock, jazz, hip-hop and house music started here, George Gershwin debuted 'Rhapsody...”

“A novel can enlarge the empathy and imagination of both its author and its reader, and my experience, that sense of enlargement is most intense when I'm transported beyond the narrow limits...”

“'The End of America' details the 10 steps that would-be dictators always take in seeking to close an open society; it argued that the Bush administration had been advancing each one.”

“And if one loves me for my judgement, memory, he does not love me, for I can lose these qualities without losing myself. Where, then, is this Ego, if it be neither in the body nor in the sou...”

“Peter Parker's storyline hits every key point of growing up.”

“Tony Allen is a good defender, very smart.”

“I have an avocado tree at my place in Los Angeles - it's the smoother-skinned one, which tends to be a little stringy. Often the birds or raccoons get the avocados before I can harvest them....”

“I get the feeling that characters are written female when they have to be, and all the other characters are male, and it doesn't occur to somebody that the lawyer, the best friend, the landl...”

“My political career goes back to the '60s and those were times of vigorous debates.”

“I like to nap. I do like to sleep. Sometimes I sleep in between takes.”

“I made 50 million bucks yesterday. That's a flameout I could get used to.”

“Will Smith said if I ever need some help, he was there for me.”

“All that hullabaloo about somebody's net worth is just stupid, and it's made my life a lot more complex and difficult.”

“Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.”

“I think the whole tension about romanticism is the way it builds and builds, and the moment it's consummated, the tension's over.”

“If there's a regulation that's saving 10,000 lives and costing one job, it's worth it.”

“My wish for the new millennium is for all children... to grow up wiser, and stronger and more prosperous for the future than ever before.”

“Girl Scouts is a girl-serving organization, so our members are girls.”

“A just person is one who is conformed and transformed into justice.”

“'Green' issues at last are attracting serious attention, owing to critically important links between the environment and the economy, health, and our security.”

“As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.”

“You can make tough decisions that I believe voters for years have asked us to do.”