“I’ve never understood why we would want to deny all the joys – and the challenges – of marriage to anyone.”

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.

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.

It is no harder for anyone to test this than it is for me to say it is false, since no one is prevented from counting teeth.

I’m a father, a son, and a grandson, and if anyone messed with my wife, mom, or grandmother, and if the law didn’t care about it, what would I do? Would I be defined by that action?

Strength is not nearly as important as desire. I don’t think you can teach anyone desire. I think it’s a gift. I don’t know why I have it, but I do.

Anyway, I just haven’t been able to find any humanity in any Republican candidate ever in my entire life.

I’m not going to impugn anyone’s integrity. I’m not going to attack their character. And, in fact, I will happily praise both Donald Trump and Marco Rubio as men who I admire, as people who I’m not going to go personal with them.

Anyone else has to come upstairs and see the Shogun. I’m still the Shogun.

I have my ups and my downs like anyone. All I can do is be me.

Don’t let anyone turn you into a slave.