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

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.

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 think cable television is wobbling and I think people aren’t going to forget what happened – because you had a situation where one of the candidates was hated, not just disagreed with, hated.

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.

No matter how attractive a person’s potential may be, you have to date their reality.

You can attract more bees with a spoonful of sugar than a cupful of vinegar.

Holy persons draw to themselves all that is earthly.

When you discover your gift and authority, that gift attracts people. When people come to you, they are not really coming to you for you but for the gift and the vision that you are serving the humanity of your generation with.

How can I make it obvious? How can I make it attractive? How can I make it easy? How can I make it satisfying?

I must really confess right here, the attraction was purely physical.

To attract people, to win over people to that which I have realized as being true, that is called propaganda.

If you don’t attempt things, you don’t attract God.