I would rather have a competent extremist than an incompetent moderate.

I would rather have a competent extremist than an incompetent moderate.

From Watergate we learned what generations before us have known; our Constitution works. And during Watergate years it was interpreted again so as to reaffirm that no one - absolutely no one - is above the law.

And I come here as a daughter, raised on the South Side of Chicago - by a father who was a blue-collar city worker and a mother who stayed at home with my brother and me.

Integrity is essential and irreplaceable. It is the most valuable asset for a person, a company, or a society seeking to build and progress.

I have spent many, many hours reading J.K. Rowling's work. I am a known 'Harry Potter' fan.

We must recognize our own behavioral errors. To be blunt, you are not likely to become a cognitive Zen master anytime soon. But a little enlightenment could keep you from making some common investing errors.

I think I'm probably a monster-of-the-week guy, and that comes back down to my old favorite show, which as a kid was always 'Scooby-Doo.'

I don't know anything about cars. A business is a business, and I think I can learn about cars. I'm not that old, and I think the business principles are the same.

Auditioning is the most terrifying thing I've ever done. There must have been four or five of them where I completely froze up and walked out of the room. My palms get sweaty just thinking about it.

I thought, if I went into business I'd be able to control my own destiny.

Our dependence on fossil fuels amounts to global pyromania, and the only fire extinguisher we have at our disposal is renewable energy.

Until you make the unconscious conscious it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

I think girls who insult people are very attractive.

I feel like being into the beat of your own drum has become too prominent in the culture.

It is sometimes easier to head an institute for the study of child guidance than it is to turn one brat into a decent human being.

This is a bipartisan effort. This is just good common sense. This is where the public wants us to go. They want us to not be so dependent on foreign oil.

Young entrepreneurs should spend an awful lot of time thinking about what they want to go into.

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.

Everybody at school knew who I was because I'm just a really friendly person.

I think most people realize that Barbara and Jenna are college kids, and to make such a big deal out of it is a bit ridiculous. At least now, the press has stopped.

The most cherished and sacred moments of our lives are those filled with the spirit of love.

Latino people have come up to me and said they were motivated to become a lawyer because they saw me play one on TV - and you can't discount how great it is when they tell me I was the first.

Those who are truly contemporary are those who neither perfectly coincide with their time nor adapt to its demands... Contemporariness, then, is that relationship with time that adheres to it through a disconnection.

My books come to me in images, and sometimes the image is at the beginning of the book, and sometimes it's simply a flash somewhere in the middle.

I don't necessarily want to know what people are saying when I'm not around, especially if it's about me. I just don't need to hear extra garbage.

Stripe really did come about because we were really appalled by how hard it was to charge for things online.