People don't live their lives in a series of scenes that form a dramatic narrative, they don't speak in dialogue, they're not lit by a cinematographer or scored by a composer. The properties of real life and the properties of drama have almost nothing to do with each other. The difference between writing about reporters and being a reporter is the same as the difference between drawing a building and building a building.

If you can socialize from the privacy of your desk at night in a dark room, you can be a smoother, cooler, funnier, sexy, more everything person than you actually are in real life.

We live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns.

Tell me what you think and then tell me what the really smart person in the room who disagrees with you thinks.

It wouldn't kill you to watch a film or pick up a newspaper once in a while.

I've never met anyone who has said, "My goal is to make America mediocre." That's a kind of hard-right conservative fallacy.

Government should be a place where people can come together, and no one gets left behind. No one…gets left behind. An instrument of good.