I've been in many of them and to some extent I would have to say this; if you've seen one city slum you've seen them all.

Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.

The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.

Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools and women. We may soon be able to tame the oceans; fools and women will take a little longer.

To one extent, if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.

A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.

I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.

The American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands.

All sport... is one of the few activities where young people can proceed along traditional avenues, where objectives are clear, where the desire to win is not only permissible, but encouraged.

I didn't say I wouldn't go into ghetto areas. I've been in many of them and to some extent I would say this; if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.

I've been in many of them and to some extent I would have to say this; if you've seen one city slum you've seen them all.

Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.

In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism.

An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.

A raised eyebrow an inflection of the voice a caustic remark dropped in the middle of a broadcast can raise doubts in a million minds about the veracity of a public official or the wisdom of a governmental policy.

The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated into a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.

The wise and the brave dares own that he was wrong.

My music must reflect whatever's going on in my mind, and my life needs to evolve for me to discover who it is I'm becoming.

I just finished a Jackie Chan movie, yes. That was an experience. I can mark that off on my bucket list.

In this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics!

The right to organize is a fundamental right for American workers.

I've never tried to be anything but me. Even with Slipknot, where it can almost feel like a roll sometimes, it's still a part of who I am. It's a very strong and passionate part of who I am, and I'm lucky enough to have an audience that is really open to what I do.

'The bigtime for you is just around the corner.' They told me that first in 1952 - boy, it's been a long corner. If I don't hit the bigtime in the next 25 or 30 years, I'm gonna pack in the music business and become a full-time gigolo.

If nothing is going well call your grandmother

I'm an investor in a number of biotech companies, partly because of my incredible enthusiasm for the great innovations they will bring.

One of the principles of nonviolence is that you leave your opponents whole and better off than you found them.

I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.

I think the federal flood insurance program is actuarially unsound and renders private insurance not viable, thereby needing an overhaul going forward.

In school one learns to ask stupid questions of life.

Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive.

I have a group of cafes and coffee shops that I go to regularly. They usually have an area where I can plug in my computer and have a corner seat where I can do a couple hours of writing or whatever, even the noise of the surrounding people walking by. Those things are the things that stimulate me into writing.

For the first time in evolution as a species, we're hitting an energy ceiling.

Musical theater is often seen as a lesser form of acting, although I don't see it that way.

It is an interesting thing. Every time I try and stray from the path of food, I get whacked.

Natural Texas politicians make terrible, terrible presidential candidates. Phil Gramm, I remember the 'Phil Gramm for President' campaign. I thought that was the worst thing in the history of the world, but Rick Perry was possibly worse.

Salman Rushdie, indeed any writer who abuses the prophet or indeed any prophet under Islamic law, the sentence for that is actually death.

To me, reading a fashion magazine is the last thing I need to do. I've got books I need to read.

I go where the sound of thunder is.

Encouragement to all women is - let us try to offer help before we have to offer therapy. That is to say, let's see if we can't prevent being ill by trying to offer a love of prevention before illness.

It's hard to hold the focus that strongly on a single character for that long.