You treat a disease, you win, you lose. You treat a person, I guarantee you, you'll win, no matter what the outcome.

I want everyone out there in TV land to touch the TV. Touch the back of the TV and get a shock for Jesus.

The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying, 'Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses.' She's got a baseball bat and yelling, 'You want a piece of me?'

A place where we all go can't be bad.

I did an event in Washington, and it was like we lifted a sea.Immediately after [9/11], there was a stunned shock - kind of this feeling of "What do we do now?" I started performing, and there was a catharsis in the laughing. People started to be able to laugh again. Laughter can be many things - sometimes a medicine, sometimes a weapon, depending on.

I was once on a German talk show, and this woman said to me, 'Mr. Williams, why do you think there is not so much comedy in Germany?' And I said, 'Did you ever think you killed all the funny people?'

Comedy can be a cathartic way to deal with personal trauma.