My own view would be to let Saddam bluster, let him rant and rave all he wants. As long as he behaves himself within his own borders, we should not be addressing any attack or resources against him.

Hillary Clinton bothers me a lot. I realized the other day that her thoughts sound a lot like Karl Marx. She hangs around a lot of Marxists. All her friends are Marxists.

Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.

Programs that pay farmers not to farm often devastate rural areas. The reductions hurt everyone from fertilizer companies to tractor salesmen.

Make no mistake about it. These are not 'kookie' birds. Right now the greatest player, the big tent on the political scene in America, is called the Tea Party movement.

I don't believe America will justifiably make an unprovoked attack on another nation. It would not be consistent with what we have been as a nation or what we should be as a nation.

I call it small government, grass-roots activism: The Tea Party activists are a part of it, FreedomWorks is part of it. FreedomWorks is the longest-standing, most active organization within this movement.

You cannot get ahead while you are getting even.

The Democratic Party has pretty much abandoned all the things that they cherish.

Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

This is a big deal. My wife and I sat in our home and we watched those young men get slaughtered on the streets of Mogadishu in the absence of a plan. It broke our heart.

We're going to have a tax cut. Today's American family is overtaxed at all levels.

Spike Lee is obviously more stupid than anyone can be by accident.

Our current tax system is broken.

My own view would be to let Saddam bluster, let him rant and rave all he wants. As long as he behaves himself within his own borders, we should not be addressing any attack or resources against him.

I have loved Elliott Carter's music for many years.

Producing small films, you usually have four or five people you want, and you hope one of them will say they'll do it.

A successful work of art is not one which resolves contradictions in a spurious harmony but one which expresses the idea of harmony negatively by embodying the contradictions pure and uncompromised in its innermost structure.

In a healthy economy, empowering, sustaining and efficiency innovations operate in balance. A healthy economy creates and sustains more jobs before squeezing out inefficiencies.

Ones suffering disappears when one lets go when one yields even to sadness.

I'm totally into new age and self-help books. I used to work in a bookstore and that's the section they gave me, and I got way into it. I just loved the power of positive thinking, letting yourself go.

Vanity, showing off, is an attitude that reduces spirituality to a worldly thing, which is the worst sin that could be committed in the church.

My daughter's just going to be really hip! My goal is to be as eco-conscious as possible: There's so much out there for parents who want to do that. I plan to keep her eco-friendly as she gets older. I think we all sort of have to do it.

Sweden is a small country, and a Swedish writer can barely make a living as an author. We were able to quit our jobs as journalists only after we had been translated into, among others, German.

Father's ideals became part of me and still are today. His reserve, deeply rooted liberal views, his provocative humour, his passion for work and love of risk are also mine.

If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.

I think I ended up on 'People's '50 Most Beautiful People' list just because of eyeliner, which is kind of a bummer. But if you do find the right color, it will make your eyes pop.

War is so complex; human nature is so complex. There's no filmmaker who has ever figured it out perfectly.

I think you have to do certain things in the pilot to get your network's attention - to break through... So maybe you push a little further in the first show.

I'm a Nickelback guy.

Delhi is my emotional home. I still dream of owning a home there.

I am happy every day, because life is moving in a very positive way.

A piazza is not a plaza. The plaza is the theme park of the piazza; the plaza is the commercial version. A piazza is an empty space with no function. This is what Europeans understand.

Plus, there were so many pianos in my house, so I couldn't really avoid it.

I came from a small town in Pennsylvania - where 'style' was whatever was new at the Gap. Being on 'Ugly Betty' at such a crucial time in my life sparked my love for the industry.

In my work, as a writer, I only photograph, in words, what I see.

I don't try to live the life of my character but I think it's inevitable that there is some carry-over into your life.

Rock n' roll was a kid when I was a kid.

Improv changed my life in the best way. I gained so much confidence and really learned how to use my sense of humor to do something other than make sarcastic comments to the TV, though that remains one of my best skills. I stayed in Chicago for college mainly to continue doing improv, which was an awesome decision for me.