I think it's very easy to get corrupted.

I think it's very easy to get corrupted.

The Senate needs 60 votes to pass anything. They have to compromise with liberal Democrats to spend more money. Even though arguably we have control of the Senate, we really don't.

Just because people are in authority, if it doesn't seem right, don't do it. If it violates your own principles, don't do it.

If people use common sense and their own guiding moral compass, I think they'll generally stay out of trouble.

You have to starve the Beast. That's one of the most important things about tax cuts. If you leave the money in Washington, it's going to be spent.

We've passed an energy bill in the House, to help us be less reliant upon foreign oil so we can get gas prices down. But nothing happens in the Senate.

Politics is a contact sport.

Even with not having a balanced budget at this time, I support tax cuts. That will help limit spending.

People can really have an impact on a campaign and learn an awful lot. It can be an enjoyable experience.

There is insufficient support for the police and safety and law enforcement, in general, in the city council.

Go by your own conscience.

Too often, they play to whatever group is the loudest down at City Hall, and they buy them off, essentially.

There's so much mudslinging going on, and people get so turned off by that. It seems like neither party is aware of that. They're too concerned with blasting each other.

The liberals are fighting so hard whenever President Bush appoints any federal judges.

Traditional marriage between a man and a woman has been a cornerstone of our society for generations. If we are going to change that, it ought to be done by the will of the people.

I would like to see additional funding for entrepreneurial development programs.

Republicans went off track. We were spending too much money.

Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.

To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.

This idea that you can watch a show like 'True Detective,' and it was awesome, but is it really ruined for you if the finale is not your favorite episode of it? It's just odd to me.

Marxism, Freudianism, global warming. These are proof - of which history offers so many examples - that people can be suckers on a grand scale. To their fanatical followers they are a substitute for religion. Global warming, in particular, is a creed, a faith, a dogma that has little to do with science.

When I started writing, the deal was that publishers gave you a grand or two as an advance to buy some sweets, with the promise that they would make a big putsch with your fourth book when you'd built up a bit of a following. But by the time my fourth book came out, previously unpublished authors were the new big thing.

God is everywhere.

Revenge is sweet and not fattening.

There's two facets to writing a song. There's you sitting in your room writing the sentiments of the song; the lyrics, the melody and the changes, and then there's the part where you go into the studio and you put clothing on it.

My father was a schoolteacher, and so I had the advantage of both western educational instruction in the school, as well as what you might call the process of imbibing the traditional processes of education instruction around me.

And of course in America you've got American football and baseball and all those other ball games, soccer has become a little niche that the women have kind of filled.

As a father, safety is always a top of mind issue for me.

If you're going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy.

So much of Hollywood is this kind of overly machismo, nonsensical view of masculinity, which I just don't find honest. I think it's this idea of - you know, we're told, well, 'Be a man, be a man.' But what does that mean, exactly? Does that mean you can't carry yourself with any fear? That you can't acknowledge that you're scared?

Time flies. Time waits for no man. time heals all wounds. All of us want more time. Time to stand up. Time to grow up. Time to let go.

I try to read for pleasure whenever I can - it's a great way just to shut it off for a while so your brain doesn't get fried.

A wise man, recognizing that the world is but an illusion, does not act as if it is real, so he escapes the suffering.

Where I came from, just nodding and smiling when someone expressed views was the ultimate insult. If people weren't yelling about politics in our house then they were arguing about music, or movies, or food.

Of course, to publish something, you have to write it, polish it, then hire out the line editing, copy editing and cover design. After which, you pick your way through the minefield of conforming to the differing requirements of Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Smashwords, or hire someone to do it for you.

As an actor, it's amazing to get to create different characters.

I didn't consciously make the decision to write an adult novel. I didn't think of it as my riposte to the YA genre.

Every single director-actor I talked to, from Warren Beatty to Clint Eastwood to George Clooney, said the biggest mistake they made is not shooting enough footage of themselves.

If I dream that I'm directing, it's not a film, it's like a commercial for cotton candy, and I've got four feet of cotton candy all around me that I've got to break through, like a brick wall or a fortress.

Already people are saying we do need a change.

If we hold the poverty thought, the penury thought, the thought of lack, we cannot demonstrate abundance. We must hold the plenty thought if we would reach plenty.