"After 9/11, I told the American people I would do everything in my power to protect the country, within the law, and that's exactly how I conduct my presidency."

“I find there's almost no place to put an award that one's quite comfortable with.”

Source : "PLAYBILL ON-LINE'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Mercedes Ruehl". Interview with Christine Ehren, www.playbill.com. May 21, 2002.

“Rhetoric and dialectics can't change what I have learned from observation and experience.”

Source : "As I See it: The Autobiography of J. Paul Getty". Book by Jean Paul Getty, Getty Publications, p. 106, 2003.

“The tears I have cried over Germany have dried. I have washed my face.”

“Do you realize how angry you sound?” must be one of the most infuriating questions in the language.”

“A God who makes no demands, is the functional equivalent of a God who does not exist.”

“There's a spectrum of possibilities. You can underline the bass, or not at all. You can create something that is well-anchored or that is floating and never arriving. You can make a melodic line dominant or barely visible. The conducting gesture is akin to painting or sculpture.”

Source : "There Will Be Joy". Interview with Laurence Equilbey, logger.believermag.com. There Will Be Joy.

“Sometimes you have to bend with the breeze or you break.”

“As a movie-goer, I really like to watch all different kinds of movies and, as an actor, I always feel like I could do pretty much anything but a musical.”