Complacency by the watchdogs hurts both taxpayers and beneficiaries.

Complacency by the watchdogs hurts both taxpayers and beneficiaries.

Selling drug secrets violates a trust that is fundamental to the integrity of both scientific research and our financial markets.

The bottom line is, there have been a lot of nuts elected to the United States Senate.

If I move one way, I lose a couple votes. If I move another way, I lose a couple votes.

Prejudice and passion and suspicion are more dangerous than the incitement of self-interest or the most stubborn adherence to real differences of opinion regarding rights.

I always was getting into trouble some way, because I was really good at lying when I was a kid.

I never wanted to be in the show business. I wanted to do special effects.

I wouldn't recommend young kids see 'Speedway Junkie.' It's definitely an age-appropriate movie - dark and realistic and edgy. If young kids want to see me, go see the Christmas movie.

What I like best is the challenge of learning something I didn't know how to do, going beyond my comfort level.

You cant cheat the grind. It knows how much youve invested. It wont give you nothing you havent worked for.

The people I respect the least are the ones that take themselves way too seriously.

You know what? I did a lot of things that were deliberate, and they all backfired. I was trying desperately to become Will Ferrell or Adam Sandler, and it did not work for me. I took a lot of leaps that I shouldn't have, traditionally speaking. I paid the price for that. I was not as hire-able for a while. But then I just gave all that up.

Adversity makes strange bedfellows

I was making more electronic and synth-based music, and when I changed my name, it helped me grow and liberate myself a little bit.

Basically, when I get home I just do emails for around three hours, which stinks. I have a thing about getting into your inbox every night before going to bed. I'm usually working from my laptop or my phone, desperately trying to get my inbox to zero before I fall asleep.

I love the Scottish accent; it is very sexy.

The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism.

Orange blossom water would make a magical addition to your store cupboard.

My priority is to give the United States the kind of influence it should have.

World Class players can lay down the toughest hands and play any two cards at any time without fear. Their reads are impeccable.

The service meant so much to me. You don't know privileged I feel and how lucky I am to have served.

I never went to class. That the university graduated me at all is an indictment of our educational system.

I tried almost every genre. I decided at 14 I wanted to be a writer. I think I had to wait until they invented word processors to get serious about it, but I really tried every genre, and fantasy was the one that gave me the scope to do the most... you could play with worlds more.

I love playing strong feisty women, I really do, but if you were to ask my husband he'd probably say that I'm very insecure. And actually incredibly malleable, which isn't necessarily a good thing.

I embraced being a pop artist, but I like doing it on my own terms, at my own pace.

When I sit down and design, it's shoes that always appear.

I must try and break through the cliches about Latin America. Superpowers and other outsiders have fought over us for centuries in ways that have nothing to do with our problems. In reality we are all alone.

Many of the racial problems in America are caused by the fact that people are innately tribal, and politicians know how to exploit that biological fact.