You cannot get ahead while you are getting even.

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.

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

I'm a very rigorous person. I like to take exercise. People get mired in old age, they get bent and twisted, but I can stop that.

I've become more of a homebody, and I like that.

The youth coming up is interested in dance now, and they're coming to the shows. That's a blessing for those of us who create.

For me, playing music is like meditating - I just play and don't really think about what I'm doing, I just let it happen.

Love yourself. Be gentle, kind, respectful, sincere. If you carry that out, you might inspire others with that attitude.

Jack of all trades, master of none

In the theater, as an actor, you're welcoming people into your house.

Infosys, with the rest of the Indian IT industry, has transformed the image of India around the world, transformed the image of Indian professionals, creating huge opportunities for them.

I think the biggest thing is clean as you go. Wash all your knives, cutting boards, dishes, when you are done cooking, not look at a sink full of dishes after you are done. Cleaning as you go helps keep away cross contamination and you avoid having food borne bacteria.

It seems natural to me that as a writer, you should have some kind of, you know, there should be some kind of projection that you actually have influenced people who are closest to you.

I don't like to get too specific about lyrics. It places limitations on them, and spoils the listeners' interpretation.

Rugby League is a war without the frills.

Resolutions are a wonderful thing if we can keep them, but many resolutions go by the wayside because we have not done anything different with our mindset.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

I'm used to comic books being reimagined, different takes on some of our beloved superheroes.

If I could wave a magic wand, we would eliminate income tax; we would eliminate corporate tax. We would abolish the IRS, and we could replace all of it with one federal consumption tax.

I was made to believe there was a plan in place for ending Donald's previous marriage. I pulled away because I wanted to allow him the time to deal with his wife.

A blind person who sees is better than a seeing person who is blind.

Though we be separated by the whole wide world, You are ever present in my mind.

When you're young, when you've never done anything very much on your own, you imagine that it won't be so hard.

Who would know but ten years ago that kids would be texting each other all the time, that that would be one of their main forms of communication. And so many times, these kids know more about the technology than their parents. And so many times, we're putting kids in very adult situations and expecting them to behave like they're 40 years old.

Any band that calls themselves 'The Killers' is gonna be dangerous.

I come from a family of professional dog-showers, one step above carnies, but I didn't want to join the family business.