A trial without witnesses, when it involves a criminal accusation, a criminal matter, is not a true trial.

The health care reform legislation passed by the U.S. House of Representatives last night clearly violates the U.S. Constitution and infringes on each state's sovereignty.

A trial without witnesses, when it involves a criminal accusation, a criminal matter, is not a true trial.

I respect a system that says we're going to put every bit of pressure on anybody we have to put it on to get to the drug dealer who is bringing his poison into the country.

You can't expect law enforcement to provide the solution to the drug problem.

There are a lot of messages that need to be sent to the criminal who is out there dealing in this on the streets of the United States. We need to send the message of swiftness and certain punishment.

We demand privacy, yet we glorify those that break into computers.

When I'm hiring a cook for one of my restaurants, and I want to see what they can do, I usually ask them to make me an omelette.

I'm actually one of the few kids in my grade, especially girls, who didn't end up going to college, just because I already knew what I wanted to do. I had already been actively working in music before I graduated.

The thrill of science is the process. It's a social process. It's a process of collective discovery. It's debate, it's experimentation and it's verification of claims that might be false. It's the greatest foundation for a society.

It is the element I miss in electronic music - no performance, no loving immersion. Maybe that is why I was never particularly drawn to electronic music.

We have to get back to the beauty of just being alive in this present moment.

Ireland is such a young society. The British were the ruling class up until they left about a hundred years ago, and we've been trying to work out what our class hierarchy is ever since.

The Occupy movement is - it was a big surprise.

I feel like I've changed a lot since the London Games. I was really young, and it was my first year on the international stage. I've matured physically since then, and I've become stronger, and because of that, I've gained a lot of confidence.

Losing a mate to death is devastating but its not a personal attack like divorce. When somebody you love stops loving you and walks away its an insult beyond comparison.

I can't not be who I am.

The song that makes me the happiest when someone sings it is Cher's 'If I Could Turn Back Time.'

I plainly felt that, had God given me such a retirement with the companion I desired, I should have forgotten the work for which I was born and have set up my rest in this world.

I play Father Francis in 'The Exorcist Prequel.' It's fantastic. We are shooting in Morrocco and Rome. Paul Schrader is directing; Stellan Skarsgard plays the younger Max Von Sydow character. It's just a fantastic script. It's a very eerie, very scary script. It encomposes a growing dread that I think is really appropriate for the film.

A field of glory is a field for all.

Outreach appearances in the schools are usually part of my contracts, and I love doing them.

A typical biography relying upon individuals notorious memories and the anecdotes theyve invented contains a high degree of fiction yet is considered nonfiction.

The great break of my literary career was going to law school.

Satisfaction lies in the effort not in the attainment full effort is full victory.

There is much that public policy can do to support American entrepreneurs. Health insurance reform will make it easier for entrepreneurs to take a chance on a new business without putting their family's health at risk. Tort reform will make it easier to take prudent risks on new products in a number of sectors.

We're here for such a short period of time.

To race Formula three is very high risk and I am not going to take a chance. Thank god I am not doing it!

I meet with people all day long.

You were the coast and I was the sea, and no matter how much I tried to take you make you mine, you refused to become a part of me.

Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do.