“My parents, products of the Great Depression, were successful people, but lived in a state of constant fear that my sister and I, and they, would sink into the kind of economic insecurity that their generation knew so well.”

The whole thing of being in music is not to control it but to be swept away by it.

What the White House is trying to do is racialize all politics and they’re especially trying to tell the African-American voter that the GOP is against letting them have a chance at a good life in this economy, and that’s just a complete lie.

A corporation’s responsibility is to the shareholders, not its retirees and employees. Companies are doing everything they can to get rid of pension plans and they will succeed.

We in the media are just people with all of people’s faults.

Israel is our strongest, most reliable ally in the Middle East. Of course, we’re their most reliable ally, too.

Every morning, I get up, get out of bed, and get on my knees and thank God for waking up in America … (She is) the light of the world … A nation of heroes …

It’s a lot better to hope than not to.

We are the beggars of the world, financing our lavish lifestyle by selling our family heirlooms and by enslaving our progeny with the need to service the debt.

I am about to vote. I am about to do something that human beings are rarely allowed to do. I am doing something that did not exist until America.

Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.

Every soul deserves a shot at a Cadillac, but not everyone should be guaranteed a Cadillac.

I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters and that it sis my duty … This is my highest and best use as a human.

If you want to fight the evil you see in finance and industry, get to work reading the corporate filings, see if there has been fraud, and where you find it, report it to the SEC or write about it or blog about it.

If you can’t stand the heat, don’t go to Cancun in the summer.

I think it’s criminal how little people in the military are paid. These are people out risking their lives, taken away from their families for long periods of time. I think they should be paid dramatically more than they’re paid.

And there hasn’t been much progress in Darwinism since [the life of Darwin].

Their parents were told: “You will never see them again.

I could enjoy the life that I had by virtue of the educational attainment that my grandparents and parents had pursued. Education was always incredibly valued in our family.

You can check that box off. You want to make your parents proud for the tuition they paid at NYU.

My parents’ convictions, when it came to discipline, were not very strong.

The only marriage I’ve observed for any length of time is my parents – 35 years. I asked my pop, I go, ‘Pop, 35 years – what do you hope for?’ He’s like, ‘I hope you die first.’

Well to me growing, up I’ve had my own psychological war with my parents dying at such a young age. My mother was killed by a drunk driver, then two months later my father drowned.

Smoke Signals really mirrored the way I grew up and how I felt, and that movie was the first time I’d dealt with my parents’ death and how I felt that loss and sadness and anger.

I like my parents but they are just not good parents. They are nice enough people. I’m not interested in hurting their feelings.