I tell people, 'If you want to send a message to the White House, call my house.

America is 5 percent of the world's population and consumes 96 percent of the world's hard drugs.

At the very last moment, Nature would force you to blink your eye. Nature will protect her own.

If I had to write down the most important people in the history of this planet, No.1 would be (abolitionist) John Brown. Why? Because he's a white man who said he would die for the cause, because they could take him, but they weren't going to take his grandchildren. That brother was beautiful.

Luck is opportunity meeting up with preparation. So you must prepare yourself to be lucky.

Once I realised the value of making people laugh, I got very good at it. Fast.

Don't have a high school diploma? You're in my Cabinet. Why? For 200 years, a lot of Cabinets have existed in our government. Powerful men. Well-educated. So let's try something totally new.