I'm a big supporter of immigration.

We are a communicating nation which needs access to space, access to the seas.

The utter incompetence of the U.N. is literally incomprehensible.

I'm a big supporter of immigration.

We are a studying nation. Scholarship from science is important to the whole world and those people need to be able to be safe and secure in what they do.

If the Republicans think that by having stated and even achieved most of the Contract that they are therefore entitled to the acceptance and favor of the American voter, they're crazy.

We're taking on Social Security as a property rights issue. We figure that every single American has an absolute property right interest in the fruits of his or her own labor. What I work for should be my property.

I don't think the only place to fight for freedom is in the halls of Congress.

Yes, many immigrants cherish the value of choice and opportunity and the value of education more than 7th or 8th generation Americans.

Government, which does not and did not grant us our rights, must not now seek to deny them by using fear as its justification.

Our educational system is appallingly poor right now. Yet, somehow we're turning out some of the most intellectual and powerful sophisticated minds in the world. I think that's because we still have the opportunity here.

You talked about national identity cards and the terrorism bill. We have made a government that has grown used to viewing us as subjects, has grown used to seeing its role as commanding us.

Finally we are a nation with some conscience. It means alliances are extremely important when they're based on a national interest. We have to have the ability to sustain our presence within those alliances.

It's insanity for a party that believes in freedom to allow some Republicans to seize an agenda that is totally alien to the agenda that was established in the election.

There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.

The ultimate end is a nation that lies under the concept of the Declaration of Indepen dence. The Declaration of Independence is such an extraordinary statement - it was designed by people skeptical of government, local or national, but in particular national.

So with the end of the Cold War, it became increasingly obvious that there was no basis upon which any decision was being made, not in the White House, and certainly because of that, not in the Congress.

We don't need a nation that has national identity cards.

The concept of minimum wage is crazy, if you really stop to think about it. If $8 an hour seems right, why not $20 an hour? If it's coming by order of the government, why stop at any level? Why not just say everyone should get what Gates gets?

Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies.

I remain a humanist. We are a very curious race.

Kids definitely grow out of their clothes really quickly, so I'm all about mixing and matching.

I'm a playmaker, and I'm going to score. At the end of the day, my job is to put the ball in the basket.

The Internet is allowing us to get back to what's really more natural, which is that storytelling is a shared thing. It's our natural way to be communal.

The elephant has just one basic gait an ambling walk elephants cannot run or jump like other animals.

In fashion, only sexy won't go out of fashion.

For me, songwriting starts with a melody. When a musician plays a chord progression, either the words and vocal melody come to me, or they don't. That's how I determine who to write with. It works, or it doesn't.

You don't want to vilify your ego.

People don't believe that any politician is any different from any other one.

Sometimes growing pains are by fits and starts.

Never underestimate your own ignorance.

They only name things after you when youre dead or really old.

I feel that my fans have cultivated my talent and they continue to nurture me.

Taking a principled and consistent stance over Iraq has attracted much criticism from our detractors and opponents.

The more light hearted I write about that, the better the message gets through.

Obituaries were among my favorite to write because they have elements no other news stories have - a story from start to finish with a proper conclusion.

I don't really go out partying, but I'm definitely a social butterfly.

Everywhere I go, I have my little Steinberger, and I like it very well.

Human nature is weak.

Sadly, I haven't been doing a lot of kissing lately.

Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys.

I've been keeping a diary for thirty-three years and write in it every morning. Most of it's just whining, but every so often there'll be something I can use later: a joke, a description, a quote. It's an invaluable aid when it comes to winning arguments. 'That's not what you said on February 3, 1996,' I'll say to someone.

Well, I had nightmares when I was doing the Klan story all the time. I had a recurring nightmare of basically being exposed as a Jew inside the Klan compound.

I'm much happier behind the camera.