“Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to vote for Colonel Sanders.”

Many conservatives, I think, see action on climate change as really an attack on a way of life.

People often overestimate what they can reasonably achieve in a year. But they vastly underestimate what they can achieve in 5 years.

So I’m a pretty conservative fellow, but not conservative enough for the Tea Party.

NSF is the only federal agency with a proven track record of selecting education projects through a rigorous, careful and competitive process that draws on a wide variety of experts from outside government.

The freedom to convert is fundamental to freedom of religion.

In fact, NSF was the leading successful efforts to improve U.S. math and science education long before the Department of Education was even created.

A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.

Focus too much on the near-term and you won’t get tomorrow’s customers, focus too much on the long-term and you won’t get today’s.

The business of making a photograph may be said in simple terms to consist of three elements: the objective world (whose permanent condition is change and disorder), the sheet of paper on which the picture will be realized, and the experience which brings them together.

Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.

Louis Vuitton, the world’s biggest luxury brand in terms of sales, is planning to dampen its expansion worldwide and focus on high-end products to preserve its exclusive image.

Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.

It feels like I’m starting to come into my own in terms of where I want to go artistically, toward more complicated, interesting characters.

I think in terms of emotions. And feelings. So sometimes what I say may not always be clear. But creatively, there’s a lot to be said for that way of thinking.