"We've had a century in which we've allowed some industries to basically pollute the air, pollute the water, pollute the ground, pollute the rivers, and we've been trying sporadically to clean air acts and ways of regulating them. But we now are sitting in a world that's filled with all sorts of materials that we don't really know the impact of. It's not like they're necessarily all poisonous but it's odd to put all these materials into our environment and watch."

“I would like to play an average guy. I would have loved to play opposite John Candy in a movie. That was my dream for a long time, and sadly, now I can never realize that. But I'd like to do comedy.”

“If we measured success by longevity, then dinosaurs must rank as the number one success story in the history of land life.”

Source : "The Dinosaur Heresies: A Revolutionary View of Dinosaurs". Book by Robert T. Bakker (p. 16), 1986.

“Every day I'm trying to be more humble and how do you do that? I guess, every day, we have mass. Every day, I pray the rosary. That's what I do.”

“The mercy caravans are through there the medicine refugees flowing out. It makes the United States look very bad here. And much more like an occupation force than it did before.”

“...women who 'adjust' as housewives, who grow up wanting to be 'just a housewife,' are in as much danger as the millions who walked to their own death in the concentration camps...they ate suffering a slow death of mind and spirit.”

“No man had ever heard a nightingale, When once a keen-eyed naturalist was stirred To study and define -- what is a bird.”

Source : Emma Lazarus (2015). “The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume I: Narrative, Lyric, and Dramatic”, p.215, Courier Corporation

“I can say, and I am responsible for what I am saying, that [American troops] have started to commit suicide under the walls of Baghdad. We will encourage them to commit more suicides quickly,”

“They were without clothes before I got there, and they were without clothes when I left.”

Source : "Light & Shadows". Interview with David Steinberg, www.laweekly.com. March 4, 1998.