In America, with all of its evils and faults, you can still reach through the forest and see the sun. But we don't know yet whether that sun is rising or setting for our country.

Because you make me laugh don't make you a comic. A comedian is a person who, that's how they make their living.

If democracy is such a good thing, let's have more of it.

If you can justify killing to eat meat, you can justify the conditions of the ghetto. I cannot justify either one.

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

When I was a boy, I was taught never to use insulting expressions like, 'I've been gypped,' or, 'He welshed on the deal.'

[A politician is] a person skilled in the art of compromise. Usually an elected official who has compromised to get nominated, compromised to get elected, and compromised repeatedly to stay in office.