To lead others is to help them change their thoughts, beliefs and actions for the better.
I think I'm the last Democrat left in the Senate after Russ Feingold was defeated that won't take earmarks.
There are three legs of the stool; spending, entitlements and making the tax code fair and equitable. That's the three legs of the stool. If we do all of those in a responsible, bipartisan way, I think the American people would all be very, very happy.
I have been very independent from day I arrived in Washington.
I started in the mailroom, literally, as an intern. . . in 1974. The legislator I was working for at the time said, 'I want you to get your law degree and come back here and get elected and be the first woman governor. ' I kind of took that guy seriously - I thought that sounded like a pretty good idea.
I think it's important that we show up. I think it's important that we communicate directly with all those working people.
I'm a moderate. I hang out in the middle. I vote against my party with some regularity and try to compromise. It doesn't appear right now that the Republican Party is welcoming moderates any more.
I had to smile when stories emerged questioning whether I was gay. Obviously I knew I wasn't but people were curiously desperate to suggest I was. . . when you know a gay guy has a crush on you, it's the most flattering thing.
I am not a specialist but a general practitioner in the world of the arts.
I hate to write and spend months just waiting for the film to get financed. Then when you start preparing the film and you shoot it, you've already forgotten why you wanted to make the film in the first place. I like to have some kind of coherent energy that takes you through writing, preparing, shooting.
Perhaps it is even a good idea to stir up a rivalry between conceptual and imaginative activity. In any case, one will encounter nothing but disappointments if he intends to make them cooperate. The image can not provide matter for a concept. By giving stability to the image, the concept would stifle its life.