We don't have a monopoly. Anyone who wants to dig a well without a Hughes bit can always use a pick and shovel.
You have to pay the price. You will find that everything in life exacts a price, and you will have to decide whether the price is worth the prize.
Leadership must be established from the top down.
I don't know how you make a record on liberal and conservative these days. We've had a conservative Republican Congress, so to speak, and a conservative president, and we've run up one of the most astounding deficits in the history of our nation.
Some people think we will see a nuclear explosion in Europe or the United States within the next 10 years. Will it happen? Sure, it's possible. But I think we can greatly diminish that risk. The only way you can do that is through cooperation, and it has to be global.
If you think you're a leader, and you look over your shoulder and there ain't nobody following you, man, you're just takin' a walk.
We are in a race between cooperation and catastrophe, and the threat is outrunning our response.
It's a fascinating culture [the South in the Civil War period] and so rife with comedic possibilities. And not in a way that. . . I have no intention of making fun of re-enactors. I think it's more just a celebration of their passion and enthusiasm, which is so infectious and maybe at times a little misguided.
Once in a while, I try to sneak in something less known anyway.
I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.
I think fame can come and go.