I'm not a fan of Secretary Rumsfeld. I don't think he listens enough to his uniformed officers.

The highly motivated young people who comprise the backbone of our military force truly are taking their place as one of America's greatest generations.

Racial discrimination does not always violate public policy.

A poor choice of words conveyed to some the impression that I embrace the discarded policies of the past. Nothing could be further from the truth, and I apologize to anyone who was offended by my statement.

The platform we had in Dallas, the 1984 Republican platform, all the ideas we supported there - from tax policy, to foreign policy; from individual rights, to neighborhood security - are things that Jefferson Davis and his people believed in.

I'm not a fan of Secretary Rumsfeld. I don't think he listens enough to his uniformed officers.

We cannot forget the little things we take for granted in America that remain the disdain of dictators and terrorists throughout the world.

The vision of a nation formed from many different peoples bound together by a common love of freedom was staked out long before our lifetimes or even our parents' or grandparents' lifetimes.

I want to say this about my state. When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We're proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years either.

Most Americans in both red and blue states reject and resent the message being sent by Hollywood and some in the media that values are subjective, to be defined by the individual and not by God.

Freedom is never easily won, but once established, freedom lasts, spreads and chokes out tyranny.

While it may take generations of nurturing, nations founded on and grounded in freedom will eventually overcome and prosper. Once free, folks rarely accept anything less, and that includes Iraqis.

Never will anyone who says his Rosary every day become a formal heretic or be led astray by the devil.

When I was young I would spend more money than I should with my credit card but my father cut it off, so I had to find creative ways of making money.

I think it's unconscionable for a Senator from Massachusetts to come down here and tell the people of Florida what's right for them. It's arrogant and irresponsible.

I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.

Harbour Island in the Bahamas is a wonderful little island with beautiful beaches, a great restaurant culture and friendly, welcoming atmosphere.

As a kid, I had to be funny.

Melissa Barak, an ex-City Ballet dancer and sometime choreographer, has put together an unspeakably dopey and incompetent mess called 'Call Me Ben,' combining ultra-generic dance, terrible dialogue and disastrous storytelling, about the founding of Las Vegas by the gangster Bugsy Siegel, who insists, violently, on being addressed as 'Ben.'

I've been willing to go for years without publishing. That's been my career.

Friendship is a difficult, dangerous job. It is also (though we rarely admit it) extremely exhausting.

I got fired when I was a dishwasher at Denny's. That set me back a little bit. You don't realize how important dishwashers are until you do the job.

I wasn't really the most charming person, socially - it took me a long time to develop my people skills - but the one place I was always comfortable was onstage, acting or singing.

There are no quick fixes to Indigenous poverty and social disaster.

It's hard asking someone with a broken heart to fall in love again.

I come from a background where I like collaboration and improv. I think that it is important.

Where does discipline end? Where does cruelty begin? Somewhere between these, thousands of children inhabit a voiceless hell.

I didn't really know what I wanted to do, and then I got this call from a casting director in Los Angeles. She remembered me from something years before, and she called my mom wanting me to audition for this thing.

Nelson Mandela is awe inspiring - a person who really sacrificed for what he believed in. I feel truly humbled by him.

In real life, I'm always in tracksuits, and I never wear makeup.

You can feel yourself trying too hard, doing too much. Nobody wants to watch somebody when they're needy, and actors are in the unfortunate position of needing to be cast and needing to be liked.

Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought.

Although I could read before I went to school, and I won the school reading prize at five years old, my early children's stories came from the radio and watching films at a cinema on Saturday mornings in Australia. It wasn't until I was nine years old on a ship returning from Australia that I was introduced to children's books.

The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon.

Nothing is as peaceful as when Christmas is over, when one has been forgiven for everything and can be normal again.

Health food makes me sick.