I like policy – call me a nerd.

No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained.

What’s fascinating is, people in Washington would rather spend time in Hollywood, and people in Hollywood would rather spend time in Washington.

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

Nonviolence is a good policy when the conditions permit.

Men don’t really like skinny, do they?

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

I’m not big on flak jackets and tie-dyed shirts. You know, that’s not me.

I think that most of us would prefer to be popular than unpopular.

I like talking. I like acting.

Religious organizations exist to foster the interests of persons subscribing to the same religious faith. Not so of for-profit corporations. Workers who sustain the operations of those corporations commonly are not drawn from one religious community.

I think everybody has something that they’ve been obsessed about in their lifetime.

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

I don’t generally read reviews.

A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.

There are people who don’t like capitalism, and people who don’t like PCs. But there’s no-one who likes the PC who doesn’t like Microsoft.

I do have a political agenda. It’s to have as few regulations as possible.

I like policy. It’s why I decided to enter government. The other thing I like about government – you have good days, you have bad days, but you never have a boring day, and that’s important to me.

I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.

The effort to try to present the Social Security program as if it’s a major problem, that’s just a hidden way of trying to undermine and destroy it.

I have a little bit of that gamer spirit in me. I just don’t have the time to be a gamer. But in another life, I would be one.

I don’t like perfumes that are too strong or sweet. I like a fragrance that is earthy and sensual and can be worn at any time.

I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.

The immigration issue is, I recognize, one that generates a lot of passion, but it does not make sense for us to want to push talent out.

A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.

You can be passionate about anything.

I’ve lived in a big showplace house, and I never want to live again in a house that overshadows me.

If you’re in favour of any policy – reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever – if you’re at least minimally moral, it’s because you think it’s somehow good for people. And good for people means conforming to their fundamental nature.

I think being funny is not anyone’s first choice.

I’m a really particular person. I want it my way.

I’m not a nerd, don’t plan to be a nerd and read books – which I can’t do at all.

I disagree with any policy that would turn America’s back on people who are fleeing harm. I frankly believe that it is contrary to everything that we have symbolically and actually said we stand for.

All styles are good except the tiresome kind.

We’ve used up a lot of bullets. And we talk about stimulus. But the truth is, we’re running a federal deficit that’s 9 percent of GDP. That is stimulative as all get out. It’s more stimulative than any policy we’ve followed since World War II.

There’s no difference between movies and television. None at all. Except in a lot of cases, television’s much better than movies.

I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.

You know we’re going to control the insurance companies.

We pay attention to every demographic in every country, so we’re going to focus on building things that teens are going to like, and we’re also going to focus on building things that other folks are going to like.

I like the language in Proust but not the context.

I don’t like talking to celebrities.

The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing.

I don’t like drinking, basically.

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

I am not a fan of books.

Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs.

I personally don’t like to go see romantic comedies. But people do want to see them, and they seem to want to see me in them.

I don’t just listen to rap.

I’m opposed to any policy that would deny in our country any human being from access to public safety, public education, or public health, period.

A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.

The economy’s always been the engine for our national security.

There has to be something in every role that interests you.

There is probably a perverse pride in my administration… that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who’s occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can’t be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.

Even as a kid, I wore J.C. Penney plain-pocket jeans because they were plain pockets. I didn’t want anybody’s name on my backside. I personally don’t like to wear clothing that is named for somebody or has someone’s likeness all over it.

I hate the idea of genres.

Every nation has to follow a certain policy: Commercial, trade, various other types of policies.

The fundamental question I believe is, ‚Is political Islam in our best interest?‘ If not, what is our policy to authoritatively support the countervailing forces?

We can’t have special interests sitting shotgun. We gotta have middle class families up in front. We don’t mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back.

The U.S. immigration laws are bad – really, really bad. I’d say treatment of immigrants is one of the greatest injustices done in our government’s name.

I don’t profess to have music as my big wheel and there are a number of other things as important to me apart from music. Theatre and mime, for instance.

Prohibition is better than no liquor at all.

Really, I don’t like roller coasters.