"I would never condone violence against women in any form, and for all of those I offended, I am sincerely sorry."

“In my head, I think I'd make a perfect spy, but in reality, I don't think I'd fare very well.”

Source : "The GQ+A: Matthew Rhys Channels The A-Team in The Americans". Interview with Freddie Campion, www.gq.com. February 06, 2013.

“The most revealing books are the Holy Koran and the Holy Bible. The Bhagavad Gita is a great book as well, and the works of Buddha. These are the major influences on the world.”

“Yet I would not die a maid, because I had a mother, As I was by one brought forth, I would bring forth another.”

Source : 1617 Fourth Book of Airs,'Fain Would I Wed'.

“Every kind of ignorance in the world all results from not realizing that our perceptions are gambles. We believe what we see and then we believe our interpretation of it, we don’t even know we are making an interpretation most of the time. We think this is reality.”

“At the end of the day, New Yorkers need a mayor who understands the problems they face, brings a smart plan and good people to the table, and, more than anything, has the independence, courage and conviction to do the right thing.”

“I don't get why arabs are so pissed off at us. I mean they have enough oil for all of them to drive a hummer at what, maybe 1.50 a gallon?”

“Sometimes I am a little unkind to all my many friends in education ... by saying that from the time it learns to talk every child makes a dreadful nuisance of itself by asking 'Why?'. To stop this nuisance society has invented a marvellous system called education which, for the majority of people, brings to an end their desire to ask that question. The few failures of this system are known as scientists.”

“The goal of re-importation is to provide American consumers with access to drugs at the world market price - not the inflated price now paid only by Americans.”