I've had extraordinary good luck with my health, other than a broken elbow.

Keeping your head down and doing the best job you can in the beginning gives you the opportunity to be evaluated on the basis of the contributions you are making. [Then], when you feel strongly about your work or about a position, you'll be given more attention [than] if you hadn't done that constantly.

The arts are not a luxury. They are an integral part of our lives as individuals and as a nation.

Our country deserves no less, because all of the other issues we want to deal with depend upon us being secure and strong.

We have to be cognizant of the fact that they've had foreign fighters coming to volunteer for them, foreign money, foreign weapons, so we have to make this the top priority.

Symbols mean something and symbols often can spark hope and action in people particularly young people.

I support our democracy. And sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.