"You have to feel confident. If you don't, then you're going to be hesitant and defensive, and there'll be a lot of things working against you."

"There's a rebel lying deep in my soul."

"You should never give up your inner self."

"There are a lot of conservative people, a lot of moderate people, Republicans, Democrats, in Hollywood. It is just that the conservative people by the nature of the word itself play closer to the vest. They do not go around hot dogging it."

"Having federal officials, whether judges, bureaucrats, or congressmen, impose a new definition of marriage on the people is an act of social engineering profoundly hostile to liberty."

"If you scratch below the surface and ask what really makes me tick, it's the liberalism of trying to promote freedom and opportunity. Promoting social mobility is one of the keys to that."

"The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance."

"I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free."