I can't be optimistic. I can be hopeful.

I think it would have been a lot better for him to say, I did it and I'm sorry, McGwire was never one to show a lot of emotion on the field, not a player who sought attention and craved to be thought of as a nice guy.

I can't be optimistic. I can be hopeful.

This is a coup for commissioner Bud Selig. I'm surprised it's as good as it is.

It was a terrible day for baseball, it was a worse day for Congress.

It's tempting, because as one senator said to me, 'We know if we invite baseball down, we'll draw a crowd'.

I believe that, too, it's hard to believe that anybody could not believe that.

It's not in baseball's interest or the players' interest to be taking this stance. It's the people's game.

The final ballots represent players, managers, executives and builders who are top-tier candidates and worthy of review for consideration for election to the Hall of Fame.

Certainly toward the end of the season, you and I could be in a ballpark and they might say the crowd is 30,000, and we could look around and see that there was no more than 10,000.

The economics of baseball are the big problem. The big clubs make a lot of money and the little clubs don't.

It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting.

There's a lot of good roles for men, always, and for very young girls. But for women, not so many.

It is the duty of machines and those who design them to understand people. It is not our duty to understand the arbitrary, meaningless dictates of machines.

Pop music disco music and heavy metal music is about shutting out the tensions of life putting it away.

I don't remember the first half of my life. All I say is a happy childhood is the worst possible preparation for life.

I haven't gotten to do the leading man thing, so I would love to do that!

I just feel that no matter what comes in a career - and mine has been all over the map - you must stay at the table, pick up the cards you're dealt and play them.

I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere.

I'd say specifically after 'Get Smart,' people now know me either as The Guy from 'Get Smart' or 'She's Out of My League.' When that came out on DVD, everyone was recognizing me from that.

I shall not be satisfied unless I produce something which shall for a few days supersede the last fashionable novel on the tables of young ladies.

I trust that I know a good part when I see one, and usually, when I see one, I have to wait for seven people to pass in order for me to get it.

I am good at business.

Titles have never given a just idea of things; were it otherwise, the work would be superfluous.

Discipline trains you to put up with disappointments, every rose has a thorn.

I was pretty much a child of 'Monty Python.' I grew up loving that type of humor and even structured a lot of humor in the same fashion.

If your doctor tells you you have a rare disease that he or she has never seen, if you've got an incurable cancer, boy, don't accept that. You know, go and get a second opinion.

I'm normally fairly busy rushing from job to job, so have little time in the mornings for my beauty regime. However, this usually means my hair and makeup is done for me when I get there, which is great!

First of all, I'm in favor of making price gouging a crime, and in fact, one the reasons I didn't vote for the Republican House version was because there were too many breaks for the oil companies.

What I've always done as an entertainer is try to come up with things that people will find interesting, or compelling, or humorous.

I say Democrats should not be afraid to talk about the morality of life, of caring for children who are born. It seems the Republican obsession with being pro-life lasts about nine months. After that, it's each baby for herself.

I say: The time has come for my courageous and proud people, after decades of displacement and colonial occupation and ceaseless suffering, to live like other peoples of the earth, free in a sovereign and independent homeland.

Our progress against malaria is impressive. But vigilance remains a critical ingredient to protect the health of all people.

It might just be me, but it's tough when you get drivers that don't stay where they should be.

I wanna show that gospel, country, blues, rhythm and blues, jazz, rock 'n' roll are all just really one thing. Those are the American music and that is the American culture.