"If it looks good, it will fly good."

“Rome has betrayed itself. It knew the truth and chose violence, it knew humaneness and it chose tyranny.”

“You can put a cat in an oven, but that don't make it a biscuit.”

“If leeches ate peaches instead of my blood, then I would be free to drink tea in the mud!”

“There are jobs to be created on both sides of the climate argument. Whether we are investing in oil or sun, coal or wind, gas or algae, the economy will be stimulated by the investment. The economy, unlike each of us, is not swayed by ideology.”

“It's lovely being a parent and being in a strong marriage with somebody who is your best friend.”

“I am and always will be a Muslim. My religion is Islam.”

“I think most of us are torn. We have at least two people at war in our body. One person wants to retire and grow fabulous tomatoes, and the other wants to stand up on a pedestal and be worshipped and get bigger and bigger and bigger until she explodes.”

“That sense of what happened in Europe in World War II has shaped a lot of my views.”