Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work.

Everything I do that I'm enthusiastic about. This is genuine enthusiasm. If I don't - I mean I've done other projects that I have not been a fan of until I realized I was doing it and I wasn't really there. And I don't do those anymore.

Tradition lives because young people come along who catch its romance and add new glories to it.

To go into a competition and not strive to win is to be a dishonest competitor.

There is a bigotry rampant in America, against evangelicals. It is the last respectable bigotry.

It is not possible in this culture today to hold up to public pillory and ridicule any group - whether blacks, American Indians, women, homosexuals, Poles, or any of a number of other groups that have been discriminated against in the past. However, the one group you can hold up to public mockery and pillory without fear of reprisal is evangelical Christians.

Sports events do not really exist at all unless there is a certain order and fairness - justice in each event.