One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able vicariously to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat what's more with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.

Of course to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money's not related to happiness.

Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery above weakness above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.

If a star or studio chief or any other great movie personages find themselves sitting among a lot of nobodies they get frightened - as if somebody was trying to demote them.

I once wanted to prove myself by being a great actress. Now I want to prove that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll be a great actress.

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

My personal advice is to go to school first and get a liberal arts education and then if you want to pursue acting go to graduate school.

I don't look to find an educated person in the ranks of university graduates necessarily. Some of the most educated people I know have never been near a university.

In the book I define conservatism as I believe it is fit upon four categories of principle: respect for The Constitution respect for life less government and personal responsibility.

As far as your personal goals are and what you actually want to do with your life it should never have to do with the government. You should never depend on the government for your retirement your financial security for anything.

I honestly do not know if civil disobedience has any effect on the government. I can promise you it has a great effect on the person who chooses to do it.

In addition to their power over government based on government financing and personal influence bankers could steer governments in ways they wished them to go by other pressures.

The Establishment Clause prohibits government from making adherence to a religion relevant in any way to a person's standing in the political community.

I am very much opposed to abortion personally. But I don't think it is the government's rule.

Americans want government that is leaner more efficient and less intrusive into their personal lives.

A world in which government is burdened by historic debt philanthropy has limited resources and the private sector is only interested in its own personal gain is simply unsustainable.

There is something fundamentally unfair about a government that takes away so much of people's money power and personal control while telling them that life will be better as a result.