“There’s plenty of room for humor in politics, God knows, but it’s a serious business.”

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.

What you see on the campaign trail is me. It’s easy being me.

There’s an element of that that’s either God-given, a talent that you’re not necessarily responsible for.

The point is that there is tremendous hypocrisy among the Christian right. And I think that Christian voters should start looking at global warming and extreme poverty as a religious issue that speaks to the culture of life.

I’m for Israel’s right to exist.

Grown-up love means actually understanding what you love, taking the good with the bad and helping your loved one grow.

You have to love your country like an adult loves somebody, not like a child loves its Mommy. And right-wing Republicans tend to love America like a child loves its Mommy, where everything Mommy does is okay.

I hate when I hear bad things about him, because anyone who knows him would agree that he’s a good guy and really humble.

God knows what’s best for us, though, so there’s no need to worry when things don’t go how we originally wanted them to go.

Birds and animals probably think without knowing that they think; that is, they have not self-consciousness.

Learning is finding out what you already know.

The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.

I don’t know if I’m different from everybody else, but there’s really only two things to me that are really, really important – recruiting good players in the program and developing those players once they get here.

It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and then do your best.

If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself.