"The fact is that Margaret Thatcher was never really a Conservative."

“I have been around at a time when important things needed to be done.”

“I usually spend the hiatus of 'Dexter' in New York in a way to balance things.”

Source : "‘Dexter’ Star Jennifer Carpenter Discusses Her Most “Frustrating” Season of the Hit Series and Branching Out for Indie ‘Ex-Girlfriends’". Interview with Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. November 26, 2012.

“I prefer a government run like hell by Filipinos to a government run like heaven by Americans.”

“The only lesson to extract from any civil war is that it's pointless and futile and ugly, and that there is nothing glamorous or heroic about it. There are heroes, but the causes are never heroic.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“Ethics is inescapable.”

“Sure, it was terrible and all, but you have to ask yourself: If the whole city was flooded, why couldn't they just swim to safety?”

“Having gone through editing process, I can see that in actor's faces there's point where they're not managing their performance and that's, I think, the best place to be. You've done the homework, you've learned the lines, at that point you just sort of let it out.”

Source : "Ralph Fiennes Talks THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL, Collaborating with Wes Anderson, If He Will Direct More Shakespeare, and More in Berlin". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. February 10, 2014.

“I'm disappointed . . . that the president has not done more to demand that Congress and other federal agencies make the same sacrifices millions of Americans are already making. There is no charity without sacrifice.”