I did not know many of the details relevant to the Iran and contra initiatives.

We shred every day.

I felt uneasy, but sometimes, like I said before, I believed in Col. North and there was a very solid and very valid reason that he must have been doing this.

I think Col. North is first a U.S. citizen and he has the same rights as you yourself do, sir.

I did not know many of the details relevant to the Iran and contra initiatives.

And sometimes you have to go above the written law, I believe.

I was very happy being a secretary. I loved working for the government. I was very happy with my life.

I wasn't interested in exploiting myself.

The press was all over to get a picture of me. It got to the point where they were all over my house, following me to work... Then Tom Brokaw and everybody else was doing stories, 'A star is born.'

The cavemen, when they saw the antelopes, they had to scratch them on to the caves because they needed to express the immediacy of what they were being affected by - and I love that. That is why I do what I do. I need to express myself.

I'm filthy rich!

Generally speaking, when Australian winemakers try to make delicate, European-styled wines of finesse and lightness, the wines often come across as pale imitations of the originals. One exception is Australian Riesling, delicious, dry wines meant to be consumed in their first two years of life.

I want to raise a family and have a couple of small Dirks running around. But it will not be easy to win my heart.

In 1980, a young Senator Al Gore held the first Congressional hearings on global warming.

Fixing a broken immigration system. Protecting our kids from gun violence. Equal pay for equal work, paid leave, raising the minimum wage. All these things still matter to hardworking families; they are still the right thing to do; and I will not let up until they get done.

That the birds of worry and care fly over your head, this you cannot change, but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent.

If you had to point to one thing that made it less likely that the Red Sox would win the World Series, I would say it was those people that go to Fenway Park to watch the games. And then the media around it.

'GQ,' you've been patiently and stylishly educating me forever. To be truly stylish, you have to be kind and courteous.

All what we hope for is that a day will come, when we have all gone, when people will say that this man has tried, and his family tried. This is all there is to seek in this world.

Genome sequencing has changed taxonomy.

Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.

Being in Cuba has allowed me to live in a society that is not at war with itself. There is a sense of community. Its a given in Cuba that if you fall down the person next to you is going to help you get up.

Cause whatever you love can be taken away, so live like it's your dying day.

I don't know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.

I'm an old fashioned theater major at heart. I love to do a show, do something with friends; I'm kind of a nerd in that way. I like to put on a wig or a fake mustache and do something silly with friends, do a little dance.

I feel so fortunate to have been able to work so much, particularly in the horror-thriller genre, but I would love to be able to do something perhaps a little more dramatic or even a romantic comedy.

Twenty years later, twenty years after I joined the women's movement, we're still talking about the same issues. We're still talking about reproductive rights for women, and we're still talking about getting equal pay for women. And that's just frustrating.

Hope is trust in God's promises, faith that if we act now, the desired blessings will be fulfilled in the future.

I don't drive around London much. Any journey around Islington involves hundreds of speed bumps that seem to tear the bottom of your car off.

The thought of making work that's easily consumed and quickly forgotten - what's the point? I want my work to be cohesive, to age and improve like old leather.

My father was a doctor in Moravia, in the south of the country. There were a number of Jewish doctors in the hospital there, and at a certain point - almost too late, really, but in time - they were all sent overseas by their employer.

A man can seldom -- very, very, seldom -- fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy.

When you don't have someone to model yourself after, you're going to make mistakes.