I believe in working in a bipartisan manner.

We live in a time today where we face fierce global competition.

It will be about which candidate, which of the two candidates remaining, is best suited to make a positive difference in the lives of North Carolina families, and I submit to each of you tonight that I am that candidate and Elizabeth Dole is not.

I believe in working in a bipartisan manner.

The American people know that every day 3,000 kids begin to smoke, 1,000 of them die an early death. They're not going to allow us to go forward this year and not have comprehensive bipartisan legislation. It's in everybody's best interest.

I am not a politician.

And I believe in having an administration that has clearly defined goals, objectives and time lines such that it and its people can be held accountable.

You always have certain strengths and certain weaknesses, and you want to compensate for your weaknesses... I have a real duty to earn the trust of the faculty. I don't just deserve it. I have to earn it.

I believe in cooperating for the common good.

Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts.

I always thought that I was okay with arithmetic.

I think it's absolutely clear that the fiscal path we are on is not sustainable, and for me, the best analogy is these deficits are like a cancer, and over time they will destroy the country from within.

I think that if we don't get these politicians to come together we face the most predictable economic crisis in history.

Romney said that his tax reform proposal is 'very similar to the Simpson-Bowles plan.' How I wish it were.

Personally, the NSA collecting data on me freaks me out. It totally freaks me out. And yet I'm from the generation that wants to put a GPS in their kids so I always know where they are.

The sculptor Frosty Myers and I met when we were bidding against each other at an auction. He's an eccentric, a liberal with a collection of rifles, and his stuff is big art. We share a love of tractors. I'm trading him one for a piece of art.

The only thing that's different between high profile or celebrity divorces is that you have to do all you can to keep your client and the details out of the media.

'SNL' is the first real job I've held for more than a month and a half.

When I look for self-help books for myself, I used to be scared that I was going to pick up a book that would depress me even more.

I was a student in London in the '70s, so CBGB really wasn't on my radar at all. Obviously, I was aware of the emergence of the Police in England and as an art student, I was very aware of David Byrne, but I suppose my musical taste at that time certainly didn't stretch towards the Dead Boys or the Ramones.

It is not only by dint of lying to others but also of lying to ourselves that we cease to notice that we are lying.

I'd love to work with David Lynch. I'm such a big fan. He's a genius.

I can't look in the mirror and look at fake things. I just can't. I'd rather age.

The problem is Twitter is designing the metaphorical equivalent of a Toyota Prius. A car for the masses. While I want a Formula One race car.

The best thing I have are 5 percent bonds from 1780, denominated from $1 to $20. As far as I can tell, they are obligations from the United States of America, so I should be able to walk down to the Federal Reserve and redeem the uncanceled ones. With 217 years of accrued interest, for a $20 bond, that's about $800,000.

In two days, it's hard to to get the quality you would normally want for a design project.

Martin Luther King, Jr., would have been the last person to have wanted his iconization and his heroism. He was an enormously guilt-laden man. He was drenched in a sense of shame about his being featured as the preeminent leader of African-American culture and the civil rights movement.

A mans face is his autobiography. A womens face is her work of fiction.

The big debate right now is if Saddam is alive or dead. He's dead, then he's alive, then dead, then alive. It's just confusing. Today they showed videotape, and Saddam was speaking at his own funeral.

I just enjoy working with really wonderful actors and amazing creative people and I hope to keep doing that, no matter where.

The scriptures record remarkable accounts of men whose lives changed dramatically, in an instant, as it were: Alma the Younger, Paul on the road to Damascus, Enos praying far into the night, King Lamoni.

When you do a piece of journalism, you may have to cut away 95 percent of what you are experiencing.

I was a waitress for six years in New York. I actually got fascinated to see how fast and how good a waitress I could be. I was doing it, so I tried to do it as well as I could.

My friends and the people I know understand that I'm going to ask them what they're doing, how they're dating, who they're dating, where they're going and what they're doing. I'm constantly asking those questions and making sure I'm in touch with the customer.

Most of the luxuries and many of the so called comforts of life are not only indispensible but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.

The biggest barrier to dealing with climate change is us: our own attachment to habits that are hard to shift, and our great ability to park or ignore uncomfortable choices.

You work with stand-up comedians or you work with somebody in theater, you work with somebody from 'Star Search' or 'Survivor' or a kid, it constantly changes how you play with people.

I'm not trying to take anything away from film acting, because it's also really hard, and I worship the people who are great at it. But to actually have to go out on stage night after night and do it with your audience right there is so wild and scary and exciting and fun and all the things that I remember loving about it.