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

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.

All of us have a lot of sides to ourselves, but the fun thing about being actor is you make one side predominant for the character you're playing.

The promise of the American Dream requires that we are all provided an equal opportunity to participate in and contribute to our nation.

I get invited to a lot more glamorous parties since I've been in 'Downton Abbey,' which has made me much more fashion conscious.

Some people thought I'd be on the PGA Tour, that I'd win tournaments, play in majors, contend in majors, win majors. I thought they were crazy.

Before we had the Internet, I organized a fax campaign against the first Iraq war. We blasted faxes to the hotel where James Baker and Tariq Aziz were having their final meeting before the two sides went to war. Much more recently, I co-founded Avaaz and Get Up, which inspired the creation of Purpose.

Thank God for your mother.

I think, in our darkest moments, you have to find the humor, and you have to find the lightness.

What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.

Talking is the disease of age.

I feel like when I'm on stage, when I'm writing songs, singing songs, I'm in the studio, I'm shooting videos, I kind of get to become this character, and I can make that whatever I want to make that.

My dad was never married. He was kind of a rolling stone. But he was never disrespectful. At the same time, even though he had women in his life when I was a kid, there wasn't any consistency.

I don't get to sue just because I don't like something.

When people criticise you, you've got to listen to that criticism, and to learn from it, which I've tried to do.

The best scientists that I've met are those that are humanists and scientists at the same time.

Talking won't change it. But sometimes it was what she wanted most, to tell someone; often, though, she just wanted to escape those horrid feelings, to escape herself, so there was no pain, no fear, no ugliness.

It's such a private thing. It's a huge decision. It's not like you wake up one day and say, 'Oh, I'm going to change my sex - won't that be fun?'

If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Punk is like looking at a mirror. I already have a mirror so i don't need the offspring to remind me how gorgeous i am.

All your acts affect all the people, people that you don't even know. So we have to live with responsibility. We have to live knowing that we're not the only ones here and you're affecting somebody else always.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

What you don't know would make a great book.

I am a great believer in people taking control of their own lives.

Whales are killed today to supply the limited demand for whale meat or to be used in pet foods or as fodder for fur-bearing animals used in the fur trade.

All of us gave it all we've got, overcame a whole lot just being on the show and learned a lot about ourselves. We're just normal people trying to do what we love and follow our dreams.