Have you ever tried to split sawdust?

The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is its inefficiency.

It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.

Have you ever tried to split sawdust?

Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.

The Senate is the last primitive society in the world. We still worship the elders of the tribe and honor the territorial imperative.

No man could be equipped for the presidency if he has never been tempted by one of the seven cardinal sins.

I can still smell the tear gas in the Hilton Hotel.

As long as the differences and diversities of mankind exist democracy must allow for compromise for accommodation and for the recognition of differences.

Tonight I am going to take a party to the headquarters of the fire department, where I have a cinch on the captain, a very nice fellow, who is unusually grateful for something I wrote about him and his men. They are going to do the Still Alarm act for me.

When you're nearing 35, going, 'Hey Dad, I can't make these payments,' just isn't cool.

There's a lot of memorization that goes on in school. You memorize vocabulary words and all these sorts of things.

Spare the rod and spoil the child

We ask our companies to restructure; we ask employees to work more for less money because there is overproduction, but then we're unable to defend them from cheaper Chinese imports. We are insane.

Do you want to know what you are? You are a creator. At every moment you are creating. The real question is, what are you creating?

I have only ever borrowed money for investment. I have been sound money all my life.

I got into the Shanghai Drama Institute because my parents, like all parents, want their children to have good grades and to go to a good college. I became a college student because of them.

Sometimes I buy my wife flowers.

Movies are such an integral part of American culture. We're so spread out in this country, and movies offer us a chance to come together and have a communal experience.

Average companies give their people something to work on. In contrast the most innovative organizations give their people something to work toward.

I think the adoption rate with respect to social media and how companies leverage that varies by the company. Cisco is probably a leader in the space. A lot of times, we actually use virtual ways to communicate our brand and do some of our advertising, first on the social space, then we do on physical advertising.

I'm really happy with everything that I've been fortunate enough to do and with the creative outlets I've been blessed to have.

The world is a penal institution.

Love myself I do. Not everything, but I love the good as well as the bad. I love my crazy lifestyle, and I love my hard discipline. I love my freedom of speech and the way my eyes get dark when I'm tired. I love that I have learned to trust people with my heart, even if it will get broken. I am proud of everything that I am and will become.

Every chaos has an order hidden in it. What we see as a chaos is actually driven by a very disciplined and dedicated order of things. What we need to do is focus on the stuff before us make our way through this chaos and that order will sort itself out for us.

If I had to come up with something that just came to me, I think growing up in a small town, I want knowledge. I still think today, knowledge is one of the keys.

Cynicism is reality with an alternate spelling.

Sadism is not an infectious disease that strikes a person all of a sudden. It has a long prehistory in childhood and always originates in the desperate fantasies of a child who is searching for a way out of a hopeless situation.

I don't need a good skate to make everything OK.

I think online is a better platform. If you look at the metrics, if you look at the delivery system, if you look at social - all of the things that online can do - TV can't compete.

When kids my age were picking up toy cars, I used to buy toy guns.

I think that there's a fine line between comedy and drama.

Note to academics: Aristarchus' track record of astronomical research would probably have guaranteed him tenure somewhere, if tenure had been invented. His stack of reprints included measuring the distances of the Moon and Sun.