This is not a sham, not a game. This is the real stuff.

I have to admit I didn't do as much as I should have back when I was mayor, but now we're getting it done. It's not where you've been but where you're going.

Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.

What right does Congress have to go around making laws just because they deem it necessary?

This is not a sham, not a game. This is the real stuff.

Aside from the murders, DC has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.

I like boxing.

My greatest work comes in the community.

When you know more, you can do more.

There is a sort of an unwritten code in Washington, among the underworld and the hustlers and these other guys that I am their friend.

I love movies with spectacle but spectacle can be a performance, it doesn't have to be a creature.

I think people should be who they are. If someone is a great mother, or a great personal friend to their friends and just a loving person, that's all they should be, if that's what they want to be, 'cause it's genuine.

For a few years, skeins of yarn piled up in baskets around the house. There weren't enough humans in my mother's orbit to wear all the scarves and sweaters and hats she knitted. And then, as suddenly as she started, she lost interest, leaving needles still entwined in half-finished fragments.

Successful people do what others know they should do but will not. To become a success, or just be "more" successful, you will do what average, less-motivated people will not.

I am very aware of the fact that it's highly unlikely anyone will write an article via their mobile phone. I've done it, but it's painful. And it's not just about the small keyboard and the small screen - though that's awful. It's the emotional experience of writing an article.

I feel like that's what being creative is: It's you bouncing with emotion and what you capture in those bounces. Accept where you are and use it.

In my world, of course, it don't matter. You could be a gangster with a dress, you could be a gangster with baggy pants.

I'm not a tanning bed person at all, but I'll get a spray tan.

You want private education for your students? No problem whatsoever; pay for it.

Now, since I'm a husband and father, discrimination against women isn't just political, it's personal.

How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?

'Jolene' has been very popular all of these years, even overseas.

I come from a family of fishermen. Fishing is very important to us. We don't hunt. We're not gun folk.

There are hardly any private sector employees who get both a 401k and a pension. There's just no need that Congress should get both.

It has made me realise how many doors open for you when you're up for an Oscar. It seems once you are nominated, it validates you as a serious director, and you become someone that people want to work with.

A classroom atmosphere that promotes reading does not come from the furniture and its placement as much as it comes from the teachers expectation that students will read.

I guess I've sort of always wanted to be an actress, except when I was five, which, I did want to be the Queen of England.

Tuesday is the new Monday.

Why do Greeks always open restaurants that fail?

I've introduced eight bills to fight for support for our small businesses and ensure we get funding to rebuild public housing - among other things.

Our strategy is to defend ourselves against an occupying army and against settlers and settlements.

We can produce more per acre on a fifth of the fuel as the industrial food system.

A vote of confidence from Cisco Systems can be very important to fledging technology companies, especially if they have initial public offerings on the horizon.

I'm an athlete, so I can get up one day and run and it wouldn't bother me. I don't get the time because I work for long hours every day. Being constantly on the move itself helps me stay fit. I don't go to a gym. I use the stairs, not the lift. I'm not into fitness, but I feel I should start, as it's healthy.