I think I am aggressive, I think I am critical when it's necessary.

Maybe it's my 15 minutes of fame, maybe it's longer.

If the withdrawal from Gaza goes badly, obviously, that will set us back.

So, you know, I think that Democrats are being more successful in Congress and I'm really going to be proud of the role I will play tomorrow as ranking Democrat on the Intelligence Committee when this bill passes.

At the same time as we clearly condemn actions of violence by groups in Palestinian against Israel.

But as I often say, terrorists won't check our party registration before they blow us up.

I think I am aggressive, I think I am critical when it's necessary.

A lot of the things that we've been able to do in the last several years were Democratic ideas, including the structure for this new director of national intelligence.

The point is to solve problems, not point fingers.

In a post-9/11 world, diversity has become even more important.

There's no deep bench there, Mahmoud Abbas is, I think, the best leader of the Palestinians we could field.

We can no longer expect an Intelligence Community that is mostly male and mostly white to be able to monitor and infiltrate suspicious organizations or terrorist groups.

We need spies that look like their targets, CIA officers who speak the dialects terrorists use, and FBI agents who can speak to Muslim women who might be intimidated by men.

The Committee's review of a series of intelligence shortcomings, to include intelligence prior to 9/11 and the pre-war intelligence on Iraq, clearly reveal how vital a diverse intelligence workforce is to our national security.

In 1969, when I graduated from Harvard Law School, women and minorities made up a tiny fraction of the first year associates accepted by top law firms.

The point is to solve problems not point fingers.

I think war should be illegal.

Mum and dad thought I was going to say I was pregnant. I said oh no, no, I've just been nominated for a Golden Globe. They were like, oh that's lovely, love.

Our own interests are still an exquisite means for dazzling our eyes agreeably.

You don't win with the best talent - you win with the five players who are able to play well together.

Screenwriting is still a challenge for me. It's more technical than creative. You have to be a very good journeyman plumber and put the proper parts together. Then, if you can still inject a little bit of something worthwhile, you have done as much as can be expected.

Fulla is the Arab world's answer to Barbie. Now, according to proponents of the clash of civilizations, Barbie and Fulla occupy these completely separate spheres. They have different interests. They have divergent values. And should they ever come in contact... well, I've got to tell you, it's just not going to be pretty.

I'm always trying to do the impossible to please people. It comes from not being secure in myself and not looking at the things within I have to fix. Sometimes you keep going because you don't want to face the truth.

I think there is a little magic in the fact that I'm so totally real but look so artificial at the same time.

In certain European cuisines, vegetables are cooked a long time. I take the term 'al dente' and use it for vegetables.

But the - look, I think that this - the United States of America is still the most powerful economy in the world. It is an incredible engine for creativity and innovation. And it has the most - smartest, most effective workforce in the world. So we have a lot going for us, in spite of the fractiousness of our politics.

Where we're coming down is we currently have $787 billion of stimulus that's been passed. We're certainly focusing on spending that money as quickly and as efficiently and as transparently as we can. We think that's absolutely the right strategy.

I have three beautiful children and a World Series ring. That's all I need.

That picture has become a sort of yardstick for everything else I've done.

I'm very Belgian, and I will die Belgian. I just have my house in the north of France because I began my career in Paris, even though I don't live there anymore.

The cliche in American politics is that one week is an eternity.

Fat and fitness can go together ... It depends on other factors.

To walk out on a marriage and leave a child was painful.

The Great Idea in advertising is far more than the sum of the recognition scores, the ratings and all the other superficial indicators of its success; it is in the realm of myth, to which measurements cannot apply.

Life is that perfect fine line between ironies.

Nothing sounded as sincere as Nirvana's music. It took a long time for me to accept that any other music could be good in other ways. Including my own.

Everything that I write will be signed with my name.

The key elements in the art of working together are how to deal with change, how to deal with conflict, and how to reach our potential the needs of the team are best met when we meet the needs of individuals persons.

If we work so hard and put all the money in the hospital to buy medicine - it will be a disaster. Why we should work? So without a healthy environment of this Earth, no matter how much money you make, no matter how wonderful you are, you have a bad disaster.

Sometimes the eye gets so accustomed that if you don't have a change, you're bored. It's the same with fashion, you know. And that, I suppose, is what style is about.