“It’s government’s job to respect and protect the rights of the individual. That vision is centrally important to the principle put forth by the Founding Fathers. If you don’t believe that, you shouldn’t be in Congress.”

Those are changes — and they are not what was envisioned by the Founding Fathers. You know, the Lord can cause the rain to fall on the just and the unjust alike.

If people want go-along, get-along politics, I am not their guy.

My first, big, silly role at school was as Arthur Crocker-Harris in Rattigan’s ‘The Browning Version,’ where my job was to make school-masters’ wives weep with recognition.

My job is to make myself available to play to the best of my ability. Mentally, I’ve got to stay ready to play every day.

I’m an ordinary guy with an extraordinary job.

Let us invest less and less in war and tax cuts for the richest 1 percent, and more and more in jobs and schools for the other 99 percent.

This is the moment — this is the most important moment right now. Which is: We are about contribution. That’s what our job is. It’s not about impressing people. It’s not about getting the next job. It’s about contributing something.

An ametuer is an artist who supports himself with outside jobs which enable him to paint. A professional is someone whose wife works to enable him to paint.

The job of the leader is to speak to the possibility.

Flying for the airlines is not supposed to be an adventure. From takeoff to landing, the autopilots handle the controls.