You can't beat somebody with nobody.

As a result, I've been portrayed as a cynical barbarian preying on the very clients I was charged to defend.

They realize that spending millions to save billions is just good business.

Words will not be able to ever express how sorry I am for this, and I have profound regret and sorrow for the multitude of mistakes and harm I have caused.

In the past few years I have begun the process of becoming a new man.

You can't beat somebody with nobody.

I did this within a philosophical framework, and a moral and legal framework. And I have been turned into a cartoon of the greatest villain in the history of lobbying.

Many of my e-mails have been maliciously taken out of context, another effort by those assaulting my career.

I am much chastened and profoundly remorseful. I can only hope that the Almighty and those whom I have wronged will forgive me my trespasses.

If I read the articles about me, and I didn't know me, I would think I was Satan.

This is really high on the priority list of tribal concerns. This is a cash cow in many circumstances, and tribes are concerned about protection of tribal assets.

Communism is like prohibition, it is a good idea, but it won't work.

I was an unusually private person - in a way, kind of insufferably so. I think I thought the celebrity thing when it happened was a temporary phenomenon, and I was above it.

To see victory only when it is within the ken of the common herd is not the acme of excellence.

A strong economy depends on a strong middle class, but George Bush has put the middle class in a hole, and John McCain has a plan to keep digging that hole with George Bush's shovel.

The best way to refine an interpretation is by getting out and performing.

Men - the colour of their tie is the most difficult decision they have to make every day.

When I was a child, I'd see a movie, I took it for what it was, I enjoyed it. And if I believed it I would tend to be more interested in knowing more about it.

It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.

Beautiful people are always with us, as evolutionary psychologists and a trip to the news-stand confirm.

When you use the language of 'fact checking' to talk about a film, I think you're sort of fundamentally misunderstanding how art works. You don't fact check Monet's 'Water Lilies.' That's not what water lilies look like; that's what the sensation of experiencing water lilies feel like. That's the goal of the piece.

After 'The Real Thing,' I thought about giving up acting because it's difficult to have a rich life outside your work when you're an actress, a private life that can survive being picked up and put down. That's what I thought, anyway.

I believe in taking chances and living your life. Sometimes doors open and others close and you have to figure out which one you're going to take. I'm always for the one that's challenging.

I dont find it a struggle to maintain a healthy diet now as my palate has changed. I dont crave rich food.

My daughter, Lila, is my style critic. She'll say, 'No, Mummy, you can't wear that.' She's very good. I do trust her instinct.

From a good lie in the middle of a fairway bunker, I'll make the same swing as I do from an average fairway lie. I'll dig my feet in slightly and keep my lower body stable so I won't slip, but I don't change my club selection or setup. It's only when the ball is sitting down in the sand that I'll make some modifications.

As anyone who lived through the 1990s knows, nothing shrinks our deficits faster than a growing economy.

When I took the habit, the Lord immediately showed me how He favours those who do violence to themselves in order to serve Him. No one saw what I endured... At the moment of my entrance into this new state I felt a joy so great that it has never failed me even to this day; and God converted the dryness of my soul into a very great tenderness.

You need to cultivate your passion and crystallize your vision. If you don't know where you're going, how are you going to plan a road-map for how to get there?

Narrative is so rich; it's given up so much.

Mr. Ware has no right to discharge any of his laborers on account of their political opinion.

Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.

He'll call that trickle-down. I call it Niagara Falls.

An efficient government is dangerous in the hands of the wrong man. Sadly, the right sort of man never seems interested in the job.

She knows what she wants in her life. She goes after it. She's not waiting for a man. She's not standing by the phone waiting for me to call her. She's actively creating. She's doing her thing. She has her own life.