We couldn't be everywhere, we couldn't see everything, and it was inevitable that some things would escape us.
A joke is a joke. There's an expression - I don't know if you have it - that's 'adding insult to injury. '
If it turns out that President Barack Obama can make a deal with the most intransigent, hard-line, unreasonable, totalitarian mullahs in the world but not with Republicans? Maybe he's not the problem.
The wisdom of the masses is not always wise. You could put a lot of things to a vote-you could have put anti-miscegenation laws to a vote, and that would have passed pretty handily. Either all people are created equal-or they're not. You're either buying into the original premise of America-or you're not.
So Fox News is the voice of America and Obama is Stalin? Oh my God! I guess that makes me Yakov Smirnoff.
That's the Senate Ethics Committee, an oxymoron since 1973.
Must be nice to be a Republican senator sometimes, because you get the fun of breaking sh*t and the joy of complaining the sh*t you just broke doesn't work.
Wherever I have gone in this country, I have found Americans.
Once I was looking through the kitchen window at dusk and I saw an old woman looking in. Suddenly the light changed and I realized that the old woman was myself. you see, it all happens on the outside; inside one doesn't change.
So long as you live and work, you will be misunderstood; to that you must resign yourself once and for all. Be silent!
Akbar Ganji was in prison for six years, and that was it. . . for six years, and it was finished. Of course the Iranian government could make up some stories and accuse him of some other things, but the international support didn't let the government do that.