“As a matter of fact, I decided in high school that I was going to go to the seminary. And I did study with the Paulist Fathers for two years after high school in full anticipation of becoming a priest.”

I’m not a big comic fan and I’m not a big fan of comic movies.

Put your trust in the Lord….your ass belongs to me. Welcome to Shawshank.

I was a grunt, walking around in the jungle of Vietnam, trying not to find the enemy. Because I am so big, they were going to give me either a heavy radio or a huge machine gun to carry. I carried a radio.

What first got me involved in politics was being 14, and a youth organizer comes to my house with a van full of 14 year old girls. “Hey, you want to go to the beach with us? But first we’re going to go support the cannery workers’ strike in Watsonville.”

I retire to make way for an abler man. In my four years as attorney general I have aged about ten years, but when I have get back to the practice of law, I hope to show those lawyers that I still have some vitality left.

She went out and took a last long look at the shabby little library. She knew she would never see it again.

The Earth is not 6,000 or 10,000 years old. It’s not. And if that conflicts with your beliefs, I strongly feel you should question your beliefs.

I would like to become the prime minister, do the job for two years, and then leave and devote myself to public work.

Kurt (Cobain) was a fan of my standup, which was pretty weird.

Most of the lyrics are over a year old, and it doesn’t feel like it’s about me. Time created a distance.

People have been playing against me below their strength for fifteen years.