“Alaskans are basically ‘leave me alone’ type people who respect and embrace different strokes.”

Making mistakes is part of learning to choose well. No way around it. Choices are thrust upon us, and we don’t always get things right.

We do know that the Bandido gang in Houston does drug deal. There are a bunch of people being convicted for heavyweight narcotics trafficking from the gang.

Among top grandmasters the Dutch is a rare defense, which is good reason to play it! It has not been studied very deeply by many opponents, and theory, based on a small number of ‘reliable’ games, must be rather unreliable.

I like Barack Obama as a person and I think he is a sincere man. I think he and his wife conducted themselves magnificently in the White House. There’s not a better role model for American kids to watch Barack and Michelle Obama, so all of that is off-the-chart positive.

All I ask is for powerful people to respond honestly to the questions, and if they can’t, explain why.

And the voters, many of them, feel that the economic system is stacked against them and they want stuff. You are going to see a tremendous Hispanic vote for President Obama.

President Obama is a utopian at heart. He wants to improve the lives of the downtrodden, which is a good thing.

One of the downsides of being famous is that folks pay far more attention to you than they should. American celebrities are constantly under surveillance, and every word they say is subject to scrutiny. So, be careful what you wish for if you desire fame. No human being should be a goldfish.

Labels cloud our vision and distract us from seeing how much we have in common with one another.

At times you have to fight. No way around it. At some point, every one of us is confronted with danger or injustice.

I’m a sensationalist. I’m a big mouth. I get attention. In this world you have to – if you want a mass-market presentation, you have to get attention.

There comes a time when a human being has to either face evil or admit to allowing it. Abortion is legal in the United States, but it should not be celebrated or used as a political tool. Viable babies are human beings.

What really matters in a workplace, what helps an employer if you’ve got a unionised workforce is if your shop stewards know the rules of the game, if your safety reps are taught to be able to examine situations to make sure the workplace is more safety.

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.

Let’s leave it all alone. I’m stupidest when I try to be funny.

As leaves cover the forest floor in a carpet of vibrant rusts, orange and gold, autumn proves that sometimes death too can be a beautiful thing.

I had my moment on the stage. The trick in life is to know when to leave.

You can leave a kid alone and it will learn to fend for itself, how to work the remote, a tin opener, and the microwave.

And I love doing this thing, and they will have to blow me out of here with dynamite before I leave.

Uneasily the leaves fall at this season, forgetting what to do or where to go; the red amnesiacs of autumn drifting thru the graveyard forest.

If I could live my life all over I’d do everything the same; the film in my camera would remain the same; there’s no way lord, to leave this love behind.

You can’t change your fingerprints. You have only ten of them. And you leave them on everything you touch; they are definitely not a secret.