You can't have someone with a pinkie out there at the U.N. or any other place.

If I were John Bolton, I'd take great consolation in the words of my principal supporter on the committee, who gave a ringing endorsement, which was, There is no evidence that he has broken any laws.

The advantage that hospitals have over other institutions is that hospitals are community-based. You can't outsource your work; you can't move your emergency department to Pakistan.

In the 2004 presidential election, we saw a wonderful example of citizens making contributions. In fact, individual giving to both the Kerry and Bush campaigns was the highest in our nation's history.

The problem with smear campaigns is that too often they work.

Everybody who served in John Kerry's boat under his command, save one, has stood with him.

As Bill Clinton said so eloquently at the convention, during Vietnam there was a chance to serve; there was a chance not to serve.

John McCain was victimized in the South Carolina primary.

When you run for president of the United States, everybody does the same thing in the campaign-they talk about veterans, how much they admire them, how grateful they are.

John McCain has become the de facto running mate of George W. Bush.

John Kerry's biography was central to his campaign.

You can't have someone with a pinkie out there at the U.N. or any other place.

I didn't realize the president was such an historian.

What you have is two men seeking the White House; they're both products of prominent New England families. They both went to private boarding schools. They both went to a prestigious university.

The important thing to understand about legislators is that there are dozens of competing interests and issues that occupy them. They are stretched thin.

Let's not pretend that all of a sudden, this is some new system.

When the size of the group supporting your cause reaches a critical mass, any legislator or elected official has to pay attention.

George Bush says what John Kerry did was noble. Yet he sees him being savaged by his own supporters.

Iraq is in a civil war. There is no road in that country that is safe.

There's no question that Stalin broke the agreements made at Yalta completely about elections that were supposed to be held immediately in Poland, and Eastern Europe was plunged into slavery as a consequence.

There is always strength in numbers. The more individuals or organizations that you can rally to your cause, the better.

Character is destiny and character is important to American campaigns.

You've got people who didn't serve with John Kerry saying they did serve with John Kerry in the boat. With George Bush, we can't find anybody who did serve with him.

I think any advocate who is effective has fully acquainted himself or herself with the legislator they are going to meet. Know what committees they are on, what issues they are interested in, all in an effort to build a bridge for communicating with them.

Since the election, since the formation of a government, the death in Iraq has increased. The United States stands by, helpless to do anything about it. That's the reality, not George Bush's revisionist history!

George Bush is trying to play it both ways.

The Democrats have this high level of expectation of what government can do.

Human trafficking is a human tragedy. Its an outrage against any decent people.

I don't want to write a book; I don't want to go on T.V., because I stink at it. The only thing I have always been comfortable with is being in magazines.

Narcissist: psychoanalytic term for the person who loves himself more than his analyst; considered to be the manifestation of a dire mental disease whose successful treatment depends on the patient learning to love the analyst more and himself less.

He who has put a good finish to his undertaking is said to have placed a golden crown to the whole.

I certainly believe that we gain through open trade and liberalisation.

There's no longer a monolithic evil empire somewhere, spreading a different philosophy of life. That doesn't exist.

The early Church had nothing but the Old Testament. The New Testament lies hidden in the Old; the Old Testament lies open in the New.

There was just something about me she did not like.

From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.

I saw that publishing all over the world was deeply constrained by self-censorship, economics and political censorship, while the military-industrial complex was growing at a tremendous rate, and the amount of information that it was collecting about all of us vastly exceeded the public imagination.

Give a girl the correct footwear and she can conquer the world.

A movie is so visually powerful, so overwhelming, that it tends to crowd out how you might have imagined things.

I follow life's changes, continue with my time-outs, and remain curious about what's next.

Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy.

Up to a thousand milligrams of caffeine is considered safe for most people, which translates into about 10 cups of coffee a day.

I think all these pop cultural media often reflect conversations we're having in the real world at that moment in time. I think one of the big conversations we're having as a culture is we thought we'd solved sexism and racism, and we're realizing more and more that we haven't.

How we get power, how cars are powered, when the technology and resources to have something that is infinitely better, we still use old-school technology. We're still using that same exact structure.

A lie has no legs, and cannot stand; but it has wings, and can fly far and wide.

I never got into the horror genre, and action was fine, but I just loved comedy. Any comedy I could get my hands on, I would. I watched 'Saturday Night Live' religiously.

When I try to relax, it's more Swedish rock, softer music, and I go out and do fun stuff. I play guitar, but it doesn't matter really what it is - just something that keeps you away from hockey.

The speed of change today is faster than the human psyche seems able to handle, and it's increasingly difficult to reconcile the rhythms of our personal lives with the rapidity of a twenty-four-hour news cycle.

A fellow has to have faith in God above and Rollie Fingers in the bullpen.