I've spent a bit of time with the Prince of Wales who I respect greatly. I'd give two cheers for the Monarchy.

The Arab League tells us to go in and take out Qaddafi. We've spent billions of dollars already with respect to the Arab League. Billions of dollars because they told us to do it. Why aren't they paying for it? They don't like Qaddafi Qaddafi's been a terrible thorn in their side.

I spent two years in the Army. And my older brother who was also a great positive influence on me encouraged me to think about law school and I said - well I didn't have any money.

Inauthenticity is endemic in American politics today. The political backrooms where I spent much of my career were just as benighted as my personal life equally crowded with shadowy strangers and compromises truths I hoped to deny. I lived not in one closet but in many.

There can only be democracy when money is not allowed to be spent in Politics.

Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.

Time spent with cats is never wasted.

I've spent hours and hours doing research into Appalachian folk music. My grandfather was a fiddler. There is something very immediate very simple and emotional about that music.

The one regret I have about my own abortions is that they cost money that might otherwise have been spent on something more pleasurable like taking the kids to movies and theme parks.

I spent much of my later childhood and adolescence very very involved and interested in art and particularly in animated movies.