“Why don’t we focus on what Afghan women can do? They can cook, bear children, and pray. As I recall, that was fine for our grandmothers.”

The government must give proper weight to both keeping America safe from terrorists and protecting Americans’ privacy.

They talked about unreasonable searches and seizures, about keeping the government out of their bedrooms.

He said we had enough to go three years without making money, and we had enough to go three weeks.

If you hear, day after day, liberals are rooting against armed forces.

During Vietnam, I was in college, enjoying my student deferment. The government wisely felt that, in my case, military service was less important than completing my studies to prepare me for my chosen career: comedian.

There’s no comparison between NPR and the propaganda that you hear from Rush or from Sean Hannity.

I think the government has a role in protecting the fundamental rights of its citizens.

I want a president who can handle a cream soda.

Unless it’s a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.

My views about God come from my dad. Dad told me that he believed Nature, which to him included humankind, to be so beautiful, so magnificent, that there had to be something behind it all.

It’s really building Air America that I’m focused on, and for me, that almost only means doing a good show.

I mean, there is a part of the media that’s not the mainstream media. That’s Fox, that is ‘The Wall Street Journal’ editorial page.

Antitrust law isn’t about protecting competing businesses from each other, it’s about protecting competition itself on behalf of the public.

Looking at a tableau of Ford, Carter and Nixon, Dole said, ‘There they are: Hear No Evil, See No Evil and Evil.’

As someone who’s spent time with our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan on USO tours and met wounded warriors at Walter Reed and Bethesda,

I’m from the Vietnam generation. I didn’t serve.

Male egos require constant stroking. Every task is an achievement, every success epic. That is why women cook, but men are chefs: we make cheese on toast, they produce pain de fromage.

I miss my wife, I miss my home, I miss my dogs, I miss my kitchen, which is something I like to do outside of this is cook.

The French cook; we open tins.

If a cook can’t make soup between two and seven, she can’t make it in a week.

I think baking is an incredible thing; cooking in general is an incredible thing.

Become familiar with your home, but know also about your neighbors. The young man who never went anywhere thinks his mother is the greatest cook.

Do not taste food while you’re cooking. You may lose your nerve to serve it.

My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor.