“I think that the terrible, disgraceful coverage actually got Donald Trump elected, along with Hillary Clinton’s inability to connect with voters on any level. That’s another thing, she was a terrible candidate.”

My job is to watch the powerful. It’s a simple job description, watch powerful people and make sure they don’t hurt the folks.

I know the constitution in Oregon was passed in 1859. Free expression of opinion.

There is a point where political correctness becomes an acid that erodes freedom.

I’m not going to change. Why would I change? I don’t tweet like Donald Trump. I’m not on Facebook. I should amend that. I don’t attack people using tweets, and I don’t do the Facebook and I’m not going to – that’s not my job.

I feel more like I’m doing a play whose main character just happens to share my name.

American sex shops are the most bizarre. They sell these inflatable dolls, but they also sell just the head — supposedly for people to drive along the highway with.

There are people who don’t like women holding power.

I believe that inside many Americans lies certain uneasiness about capital punishment.

Do the atheists in Wisconsin realize they’re going to Hell? Did you ask them that?

Change is never a loss – it is change only.

To sum up, the position we took was that since we didn’t know the internal situation in Iraq nor Saddam Hussein, that our best bet was to take counsel from the people who did know him and who did deal with him.

If you’re thinking of debt, that’s what you’re going to attract.

I am who I am: an Irish Catholic kid, working class from Long Island. And I made it big.

I wanted to be a child actor so bad that every day I’d beg my parents if I could audition, but my mom said, ‘Not until you can drive yourself to auditions.’

He [Barak Obama]’s a guy from Chicago. He doesn’t know what the hell to do. He’s got a big pipe with a hole in it.

You know what’s really frightening? You (Jon Stewart) actually have an influence on this presidential election. That is scary, but it’s true. You’ve got stoned slackers watching your dopey show every night and they can vote.

I believe the record I was allowed to help establish by the side of the president was important.

Banks are slowly but surely lending again, and never again will taxpayers foot the bill for Wall Street’s excesses. In case we forgot, that was the change we believed in. That was the change we fought for. That was the change President Obama delivered.

I join President Obama and the vast majority of Chicagoans who are tired of waiting for Washington to get serious about gun violence.

The thing I love about Donald, it’s time this country is run by a businessman and not people with their hands out, and Donald doesn’t have his hands out.

Even in the 1950s, President Eisenhower was concerned about what he called a campaign of hatred of the U.S. in the Arab world, because of the perception on the Arab street that it supported harsh and oppressive regimes to take their oil.

I pray to God. I don’t pray to the president, the governor, the mayor, no black caucus, no this and that. I pray to God, and that’s the end of it.

That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it.

If you see the President, tell him from me that whatever happens there will be no turning back.