Every accepted public quote

“I've spent so many years talking about lame ducks in the White House and Congress, and it's never occurred to me to find out what the heck it means. It turns out it's an old English hunting...”

“All evidence shows that we are actually getting smarter. Roughly we are getting 10 IQ points smarter every decade. The speed of innovation is also faster.”

“Birth is violent, and out of that violence is our only chance of rebirth.”

“The reflexive allergy to L.A. that a lot of New Yorkers have, I feel like it's kind of nonsense.”

“The March on Washington was a culmination of years of hard work and dedication of many individuals.”

“We're both thieves, Harvey Swick. I take time. You take lives. But in the end we're the same: both Thieves of Always.”

“I believed or thought I was disoriented and the victim of a bizarre dream and I believe I paced in and out of the room and possibly into one of the other rooms. I may have re-examined her, f...”

“When Colonel Gadhafi started using his air force against civilians on the ground, we did not hesitate. Then we supported the resolution of the Security Council, which introduced arms embargo...”

“If someone's liver doesn't work, we blame it on the genes; if someone's brain doesn't work properly, we blame the school. It's actually more humane to think of the condition as genetic. For...”

“Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.”

“In Hollywood now when people die they don't say, 'Did he leave a will?' but 'Did he leave a diary?'”

“I gravitate toward people with a big, sane, sound mind and big heart with a soft spot for elders, children, and animals.”

“I do think there is a lot of potential if you have a compelling product and people are willing to pay a premium for that. I think that is what Apple has shown. You can buy a much cheaper cel...”

“When you go to jail, there's so much simple stuff missing. You just want some good toilet paper or a real toothbrush, a real blanket and a real bed to lay in.”

“The Administration has made critical mistakes and errors in judgment leading up to the war in Iraq. The President refuses to acknowledge these mistakes, and thus, no corrective action has be...”

“Here be dragons to be slain, here be rich rewards to gain; If we perish in the seeking, why, how small a thing is death!”

“In my experience, the most effective professionals in business and government have the ability to get things done. They're trained to work with multiple stakeholders, to understand how to id...”

“My mom always said, 'Don't date a guy who thinks he's prettier than you.'”

“Humor brings insight and tolerance.”

“My father got me strong and straight and slim And I give thanks to him. My mother bore me glad and sound and sweet, I kiss her feet.”

“I ended up buying a restaurant. Already we had invested in a gas station and a metal products plant.”

“Beauty, more than bitterness, makes the heart break.”

“Investing is about making probabilistic decisions with limited information about an unknowable future. The variables are well known, as are the possible outcomes.”

“So I've seen life as one long learning process. And if I see - you know, if I fly on somebody else's airline and find the experience is not a pleasant one, which it wasn't in - 21 years ago,...”

“I always said I wanted an Olympic medal. It's the pinnacle of any athlete's career.”

“Biggest rival is Kaillie Humphries of Canada, and we are actually training partners. She was at my wedding, and I consider her a close friend.”

“I had a one day slip, Matt. So what do you do? You get up and you go on, and you try not to do it again.”

“I do have a lot of gays in my family now, but some will never come out.”

“I don't want to come across as a victim with a sob story. I've got a fantastic life. I'm not a victim. I thank the bullies out there for making me who I am. Some people become weaker, but th...”

“The sure way to be happy is to sing.”

“I think the thing that L.A. had on Sydney is an awesome music scene, especially for what I do.”

“Some scientists use TeX or LatEX but for most people Word is the thing that writers use these days.”

“The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do meet, their victims lie strewn all round.”

“I've been doing a few interviews since the loss of the SpaceX Dragon on its way to the Space Station. Each one very quickly questions the viability of what they call commercial space in ligh...”

“Most of the men and women who vote in Congress each year to continue subsidies have taken campaign donations from big energy companies.”

“To be the man, you gotta beat the man!”

“If there was a way to discourage trash constitutionally, I would sure as heck take a hard look at it. I don't think there is. So I don't think there's a choice here.”

“O righteous One, how i hate my flesh. My heart, mind and soul cry out to be one with you but I fall into temptations of my flesh over and over again. I hate myself for it for my flesh dictat...”

“You want to shut up every Negro who has the courage to stand up and fight for the rights of his people, for the rights of workers, and I have been on many a picket line for the steelworkers...”

“I don't know if I'm a heartthrob or if I want to be one! I heard that I get the most fan mail. It's very flattering, and lovely to be popular with the public.”

“The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability.”

“If the only way you can build an emergency fund is to pay the minimum due on your credit card, that is what you need to do.”

“I adore dark chocolate.”

“Eating constitutes the greatest obstacle to self-control; it gives rise to indolence.”

“Countries that are agricultural can, at a low standard of living, sustain themselves. You can be self-sufficient; the money economy is a relatively insignificant part of the total economy. S...”

“This must be what an addict feels like, I think, trying to fight the pull of one last, quick read. My fingers itch toward the binding, and finally, with a sigh of regret, I just grab the boo...”

“Lena Dunham is an extraordinary woman.”

“I think mental illness or madness can be an escape also. People don't develop a mental illness because they are in the happiest of situations, usually. One doctor observed that it was rare w...”