“Dan Rather is guilty of not being skeptical enough about a story that was politically loaded.”

We live in an age where truth really doesn’t matter anymore.

If I’m the president of the United States, I walk right into Union Square, I set up my little presidential podium, and I say, ‘Listen, citizens of San Francisco, if you vote against military recruiting, you’re not going to get another nickel in federal funds.

It is a powerful statement that a good man suffered for me, that a just God was looking out for me, and if I lived a good life.

It’s an excellent movie. Really excellent.

I’m not writing a Ph.D. Dissertation.

Hitler and Joseph Goebbels understood that if you say something loud and long enough many people will believe it.

Saddam Hussein… I believe is involved with this World Trade Center and Pentagon bombing. I believe that you’re going to find out that money from Iraq flowed in and helped this happen.

Your mom was right when she told you never to discuss politics and religion because emotions run so high in those arenas. Especially religion.

And I couldn’t get over the fact that there was no difference between Sylvia’s restaurant and any other restaurant in New York City. I mean, it was – it was exactly the same, even though it’s run by blacks, primarily black patronship.

They advertise on the radio for food stamps!

When I tell children that they are far too dependent on their gizmos, they do not deny it. But they really don’t care.

It is up to each voter to evaluate honesty and competency in a factual, therefore fair way.

The goal of higher education should be to champion the airing of all honest viewpoints. Nothing less is acceptable.

You must know the difference between dissent from the Iraq war and the war on terror and undermining it. And any American that undermines that war, with our soldiers in the field, or undermines the war on terror, with 3,000 dead on 9/11, is a traitor.

We are all born with a grab bag of gifts and gaps. Identify your true talents, then find out how to use them to make money.

Oregon is outflanking California as the most left wing state in the union.

I think I’m more bonded, emotionally and in a craft sense, to films that tell extraordinary stories about extraordinary destinies.

Every moral has a story, every story has and end. Every battle has its glory, and its consequence.

I write nonfiction in this thriller-esque style. I have all the facts; I research it. I have thousands of pages of court documents… I try to get inside my stories.

My favorite roles usually have to do with the story, if it’s a good story I usually enjoy doing the character.

Nietzsche said that everyone tells themselves the story of their life. That’s true about countries, too. We’re constantly telling ourselves the American story.

There’s always more to a story than a body can see from the fenceline.

Perserverance. . .that’s been the story of my family.

Music is a big part of my life. I listen to different genres, and I choose the music that will inspire the next part of my story.