We [in USA] have people honestly believing that, if a president calls a war, you have to shut up and sing. That is not the nation my mother raised me to pledge my allegiance to. We should speak out. We sent thousands of Americans to foreign battlefields to protect our way of life, which includes free speech. If you're not going to use it, it's already lost. We'll find a Mussolini who will tell us what's good for us.

At first, I thoroughly enjoyed being famous.

The biggest threat to this country isn't the Russians. It's our own inability to make democracy or capitalism work.

Some people are uncomfortable with the idea that humans belong to the same class of animals as cats and cows and raccoons. They're like the people who become successful and then don't want to be reminded of the old neighborhood.

Miss Child is never bashful with butter.

I find celebrity status difficult to bear when I am in the company of my mother.

I certainly think we have an emergency in media, and we gotta fix it.