The U.N. can meet and discuss, but we don't need their permission.

You shouldn't presume that all quotes that are in a magazine or a newspaper are accurate.

Don't believe everything that you read in the newspapers.

There are over 100 entities in the federal government that have something to do with homeland security.

She's leaving when the president has one of the highest approval ratings on record. From here, it can only go down. And when it does, you know who they're going to blame. They're gonna blame Andy Card!

Victory is the only option. And we will be victorious in Iraq.

Victory is the most important aspect in Iraq, because victory in Iraq will help us have victory in the War on Terror.

The U.N. can meet and discuss, but we don't need their permission.

Kyoto was a flawed process. There isn't one industrialized country around the world that has ratified that treaty, and so that is a non-starter.

My children and grandchildren loved the secret servicemen and women that served us. I was honoured that they thought I was important enough to protect.

Scholarships that allow students to get a good education are important, but first we want to measure the progress that the schools are teaching our students, we want to hold them accountable for the progress, we want to hold the schools accountable for teaching the young people in America.

The Oval Office symbolizes... the Constitution, the hopes and dreams, and I'm going to say democracy. And when you have a dress code in the Supreme Court and a dress code on the floor of the Senate, floor of the House, I think it's appropriate to have an expectation that there will be a dress code that respects the office of the President.

The top priority is leaving no child behind. We want accountability in the system, and we want schools to recognize they have a responsibility to teach students.

Well, paycheck protection is an important ingredient for a successful campaign finance reform measure.

Art is for entertainment purposes, but it's also to reflect our dreams, our hopes, the present, the future the past - whether it's good or bad.

I've gone through various periods with superheroes. They work in the right hands, but they don't work in other hands. It's tricky. But any movie is tricky. It's impossible to say, 'This is what you do in any situation.'

How is it that we remember the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not remember how often we have recounted it to the same person?

To me, it remains incomprehensible that a people who can design the Porsche 911 and sleek, white ice trains, who created the Bauhaus and speak at least three languages at birth, want to own twee Christmas figurines painted in gaudy colours, dress up in Bavarian lederhosen, and eat Haribo gummy bears.

I'm a little bit out of it, I suppose; I'm more of the golden oldie type.

If satire is to be effective, the audience must be aware of the thing satirized.

In Europe, I always have fun bike riding in Amsterdam.

It's hard to shape glass. It took me years of practice, and as a result, I've never gotten bored with it. It's difficult. Every time I come into the studio, I've got some sort of new challenge. And something that I would like to learn how to do better, and the material never disappoints me.

Dreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you.

Civilization is the way ones own people live. Savagery is the way foreigners live.

A lot of what I'm obsessed with is the relationship and the dynamics between people and the family, particularly brothers and their father.

I went to James Monroe High School, a big school in the East Bronx. My first promotion was the first alumni reunion dance. I got all the names and addresses out of the yearbook. It came off very well.

The amount of control you have over somebody if you can monitor internet activity is amazing.

Usually when I'm out doing stuff, I'm just out in the wild, doing the wild thing. I don't really get a chance to just chill out until I come here, in my creative space.

There are a few things that make me angry. Mostly things not going my way.

Alejandro Jodorowsky is one of the supreme nut jobs in movie history, and of course I mean that in the nicest way.

Everybody thinks about Bo Derek as being this extravagant looking lady but she is also a wonderful actress.

Relationships based on deals between leaders or ruling elites tend to collapse amid popular anger.

If we had to go live action, I'd hold out for Tim Burton to direct.

I couldn't tell the truth if my life depended on it.

I like girls who are funny with a warped sense of humor.

The beauty of existence is that we get past the superficialities and material world and hopefully move into - lord - hopefully a bit of depth.

Life can make you do many things, even kiss a man with a runny nose.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.