Every accepted public quote

“This is now a global war on terror and, indeed, it is important, it is imperative that we win in the battles in Afghanistan and that we win in the battles in Iraq. And as the gentleman from...”

“Television is for appearing on - not for looking at.”

“At the U.N., I routinely encounter countries that do not want to impose sanctions or even to enforce those already on the books. The hard-line sanctions skeptics have their own self-interest...”

“When I was a kid in Houston, we were so poor we couldn't afford the last 2 letters, so we called ourselves po'.”

“Every weekend, I'm on the highway to Antwerp. I need to be there, to have the calm. It's a whole different life: I jump on my bike, and it's so small, I can be anywhere in a minute. I like t...”

“I also met, early on Ella Fitzgerald. Her songbooks are some of the most amazing bodies of work.”

“I am so focused on the fact that the conversation doesn't address any of the things I think are important. I think our political dialogue in America is distorted and completely off track.”

“I think it's clear that Planned Parenthood has worked to mislead the public about who they are... they do not provide mammograms. They are the middleman, or middle woman, if you will.”

“I believe always you should have a philanthropic heart inside but business way. Because you have to get things done. That is what scientists tell us how to do properly. Business should tell...”

“Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs.”

“I'm sorry. I use my rapier wit to hide my inner pain.”

“The road to success is always under construction.”

“Know that the tiger mosquito - Aedes albopictus - sometimes spreads viruses that spread like Zika, so it may be able to spread Zika.”

“I did a lot of violent junk just because I needed the money - alimony movies, you might call them - and then I decided to start turning down the junk scripts and wait for something better, n...”

“I was dirt-poor. I could barely hold down a job. Eventually, though, I started getting small parts on shows like 'Smallville,' 'Supernatural'... and lots of really bad sci-fi movies. I was r...”

“Rebellion against your handicaps gets you nowhere. Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most inte...”

“The opportunity to do what is right is available at all times.”

“Even when the characters are supposed to be accustomed to the wonder, I try to weave an air of awe and impressiveness corresponding to what the reader should feel. A casual style ruins any s...”

“I've been in a band, so I understand the politics. Sometimes the bass player doesn't like what the guitar player is doing, and you have to sort of even that out.”

“I am sometimes sad when I hear the personal stories of Tibetan refugees who have been tortured or beaten. Some irritation, some anger comes. But it never lasts long. I always try to think at...”

“I don't think there's anyone that's more beautiful than Halle Berry.”

“I'm surprisingly practical in much of my life, but not when it comes to my shoes.”

“Baseball is a slow, boring, complex, cerebral game that doesn't lend itself to histrionics. You 'take in' a baseball game, something odd to say about a football or basketball game, with the...”

“I been making history for Omaha, Nebraska, since I started boxing professional, and it just keeps going and going and going.”

“I think one of the most important things we can do as feminists is acknowledge that, even though we have womanhood in common, we have to start to think about the ways in which we're differen...”

“I've developed a karaoke habit. I've become a crooner.”

“Intellectual fascination crosses many boundaries.”

“Good girls like myself need subversion. Being solemn, I aspire to comedy. Being a novelist, I aspire to the musical. Being organized, I aspire to luminous chaos. Loving the power of grammar...”

“Love lights more fires than hate extinguishes, And men grow better as the world grows old.”

“As long as you're giving up quality records and you're makin' hit records, people are always gonna want to hear a hit, and they'll always want to be attached to something that's doin' great.”

“Maybe we'd forgotten what socialists are meant to look and sound like. Well, now we've been reminded. They're meant to look and sound like Jeremy Corbyn.”

“You can keep the body as well-oiled and receptive as possible, but whether you're actually going to be able to go for the long haul is really not your own choice.”

“It was more that his career was going down again and he was tired of the songs. He was tired of the routine. And there was a point where he just kind of gave up. He couldn't face being 40. A...”

“The Republican party does have a lot of work to do. But changing our principles is not a winning strategy. We need to modernize, not moderate.”

“I used to think I needed to have drama at all times, or I wouldn't have the fuel for the performance. Now I know that's not true. That doesn't mean I don't feel it, but I recognize it when I...”

“I'm tri-racial: African-American, Native American and Euro - that's the Scotch-Irish part.”

“In my experience, the more successful an idea is, the easier it is to fund it. In philanthropy, it's almost harder.”

“Our country will, I believe, sooner forgive an officer for attacking an enemy than for letting it alone.”

“You always want to have good balance. That's the key to winning a Super Bowl. You look at the teams who have won championships, you got to have balance. So, to be able to run the ball effect...”

“I have a tip that will take five strokes off anyone's golf game. It's called an eraser.”

“My prospects for life, though in a measure shaded with uncertainty, hardship and danger, are very animating and bright. My prospects for another life, blessed be God, are still brighter.”

“The sidelines may be safer but life is played on the field”

“I love compliments; of course I do. Everybody wants to receive compliments. But the team is the important thing, and I'd rather win things as a team than finish up with individual honours.”

“But I always had the ability to say no. That's how I called my own shots.”

“Michael Sam will help us, and we'll give him every chance to succeed, and you know what? It's gonna be pretty cool.”

“The appendages of the skin are the nails, the hairs, the sudoriferous and sebaceous glands, and their ducts. The nails and hairs are peculiar modifications of the epidermis, consisting essen...”

“You cannot exalt God and yourself at the same time.”

“God's silences are His answers. If we only take as answers those that are visible to our senses, we are in a very elementary condition of grace.”