I always knew there wasn't going to be anybody to help me and emotionally support me, that whatever I did I'd have to do on my own.

I'm certainly not as tough as people think. I'm not a fighter and so forth. I'd just as soon go home.

I've been too many places. I'm like the bad penny.

If you want your freedom, you have to be willing to work hard to exercise it.

I come from the Lynchs of Sligo. You know, I went there, but I looked in the phone book and there are nine million Lynches in Sligo.

I love discourse. I'm dying to have my mind changed. I'm probably the only liberal who read Treason, by Ann Coulter. I want to know, you understand? I like listening to everybody. This to me is the elixir of life.

[on the birth of his son after having had two daughters] I finally got it right.