We are becoming so accustomed to millions and billions of dollars that "thousands" has almost passed out of the dictionary.

When all is said and done, the real citadel of strength of any community is in the hearts and minds and desires of those who dwell there.

I have said, with respect to authorization bills, that I do not want the Congress or the country to commit fiscal suicide on the installment plan.

The oil can is mightier than the sword.

The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with compassion.

During a political campaign everyone is concerned with what a candidate will do on this or that question if he is elected except the candidate; he's too busy wondering what he'll do if he isn't elected.

A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money.

There is no force so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

We have been through this is biennial convulsion four or five different times over the past 10 or 12 years, and now it appears that we are going through this quiet agony all over again.

When a member of the House moves over to the Senate, he raises the IQ of both bodies.

But the basic difficulty still remains: It is the expansion of Federal power, about which I wish to express my alarm. How easily we embrace such business.

We are becoming so accustomed to millions and billions of dollars that "thousands" has almost passed out of the dictionary.

I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.

We are becoming so accustomed to millions and billions of dollars that 'thousands' has almost passed out of the dictionary.

When I feel the heat I see the light.

The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion constitutionality is no match with compassion.

It's an honor to live in and serve the great City of Los Angeles. I'm also immensely grateful for the support I've received from Ireland.

It was awesome and liberating to play a Russian spy.

The public doesn't care about my size. It's just something for the media to talk about.

My step-mom would tell me that she would get complaints from adults that I stared too much at them.

You can go down the list of great artists and kind of understand that they are products of their environment. Whether it's U2 or Henry Rollins or myself or Johnny Lydon, they're gonna be products of their environment.

I think anything we do outside of Gym Class Heroes still falls under the Gym Class Heroes umbrella. There's really no method to the madness. With Gym Class, it's more of a democratic process, and when I'm working on solo stuff, it's just me, either working with producers or sitting in a room by myself. They balance and complement each other.

Hell is full of good wishes or desires.

There are hunters, and there are victims. By your discipline, cunning, obedience, and alertness, you will decide if you are a hunter or a victim.

Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.

To plunder to slaughter to steal these things they misname empire and where they make a wilderness they call it peace.

People are unhappy with the direction of the country - we saw that with the rise of the Tea Party; we saw that when we had thousands of people at the statehouse in Concord, New Hampshire, protesting the government with more taxes and more spending.

My wife thinks I'm completely mad.

Barry White seemed so filled with self-parody at first that it was easy to dismiss him. But it is becoming increasingly obvious with every additional release that he is a very talented man.

I have a lot of stamina and I have a lot of resilience.

Nobody says you have to be shackled to tradition.

Nobody seriously believes in the social philosophies of the immediate past.

I don't think I'm a good ol' boy. Honestly, the last thing I am is a redneck. I like silk sheets, fancy cars, beautiful women, good whiskey.

I'm very attracted to poetry for all the reasons someone likes poetry. The notion of compression seems to fit my personality.

I never met a stripe I didn't like.

Boston was a great city to grow up in, and it probably still is. We were surrounded by two very important elements: academia and the arts. I was surrounded by theater, music, dance, museums. And I learned how to sail on the Charles River. So I had a great childhood in Boston. It was wonderful.

When you're dealing with digital goods, you don't have to be tied to one URL.

Survival is not about being fearless. It's about making a decision, getting on and doing it, because I want to see my kids again, or whatever the reason might be.

Broadway is obviously a dream come true, but audiences everywhere continue to make performing a blast.

If you're a female and you get asked by someone who shoots the most beautiful female scenes to be in their film, it's kind of exciting.