I think most folks are good folks.

I think racial profiling is wrong. It cannot be defended. It's just flat wrong. And if a matter came before me, and it could be established that the arrest was made strictly on racial profiling, when I was on the bench, it would be gone.

Well, I - all cases to me have interest. Every case is important to somebody, the people litigating that case. But the most difficult case for me is the case where one person says a, the other person says b, and you just don't know for certain who is not telling you the truth.

I think, unfortunately, some people are just bad, they're just born bad, and I don't know why.

I have great faith in the jury system.

And so they pitched the show to me. It sounded like a good idea. We pitched the show back, and got it sold and got it on the air. And that's kicking the tail.

We must focus on people as people, regardless of race, creed, color or gender.

And some people, you've got to lock up. If you don't, they're going to hurt you.

But I do believe this - I believe that fundamentally, society is headed in the right direction or wants to head in the right direction, and I think judges have an obligation to try to help it head there.

Well, I think every now and again, some people deserve to get their butts chewed. Every now and again some people deserve a pat on the back. What I try and do is compliment folk who deserve a compliment, and chew folks out who deserve to be chewed out.

I think most folks are good folks.

Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.

The color of somebody's skin or the way he wears his hair or clothes has nothing to do with anything.

Every unfortunate event does not give rise to lawsuit.

Michael Jackson fundamentally altered the terms of the debate about African American music. Remember, he was a chocolate, cherubic-faced genius with an African American halo. He had an Afro halo. He was a kid who was capable of embodying all of the high possibilities and the deep griefs that besieged the African American psyche.

The Nobel Prize in Economics is an incredible recognition for the work that my students, colleagues and I have done over the years. We all worked hard, but we were also lucky that the financial applications were so important.

I wouldn't consider retiring to India: there are too many people, and it's difficult walking along the pavements. I'd love to spend two or three months a year there.

The United States needs to be far clearer: we cannot and will not support any government where Hamas has a real influence and the security forces stop fighting terror.

In fighting the debt crisis, E.U. countries have enhanced co-operation and carried out reform with tremendous courage. This is laudable.

I absolutely refused to make out with the gorgeous male model.

The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living.

The first Monopoly game I played with my brothers, I hated losing so much, I just had to beat them.

Variety is the thing for me to be able to work in theater and be involved in more films and TV movies that say something.

Everybody grows up.

It must be terrible to have to live among people and not like human nature.

I have done about 15 movies so far and am on my 5th season on That '70s Show.

No matter where I go, I want to carry my family.

I think, primarily, we love spy thrillers, and I think, instinctively, we love the tension that those thrillers can bring.

These men were religious when the spirit of religion was buried in forms and ceremonies, and when the priesthood had armed itself with the civil powers to put down all opposition, and suppress all freedom, intellectual, civil, and religious.

I have been a lifelong community activist and frankly did not dream of being in public office.

The world's a mean place. It's unfair, then it's fair. It's hateful, then it's loving. It's a very peculiar place on philosophical and metaphysical and religious levels.

We have more women serving in the military than any time in our nation's history, and yet the VA has not done a pivot to look at women's healthcare issues.

I would love to start a cancer organization.

You can never protect yourself 100%. What you do is protect yourself as much as possible and mitigate risk to an acceptable degree. You can never remove all risk.

If you can't play guitar and sing in Nashville, you might as well just be a construction worker.

It is up to you civilians to give a hand to show that we intend to take our responsibilities to maintain the integrity of our Empire, by giving the world proof that we have not all sold out to the Jew or Plutocrat.

Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team.

Reflecting back, we all make mistakes; we all go through our stuff - relationships, financial, all kinds of stuff - and if you can grow from that and pass that message on, it's a pretty cool thing.