Parenting is the most important job on the planet next to keeping Gary Busey off the nation's highways.

• What's so touching is the way we fight the war right until the moment our business is taken care of and then we turn on a dime and we immediately start taking care of people. It's like a shock and aw shucks campaign.
• I didn't know my Dad - he moved out early. And my mom's politics were kind of hardscrabble. She didn't think about Democrats or Republicans. She thought about who made sense. I've been both in my life.
• The death penalty is becoming a way of life in this country.
• You know there is a problem with the education system when you realize that out of the 3 R's only one begins with an R.
• The American education system couldn't be more badly directed or poorly funded if the Secretary of Education were Ed Wood.
• There's nothing wrong with being shallow as long as you're insightful about it.
• I rant, therefore I am.
• Here in Hollywood you can actually get a marriage license printed on an Etch-A-Sketch.
• Never ever discount the idea of marriage. Sure, someone might tell you that marriage is just a piece of paper. Well, so is money, and what's more life-affirming than cold, hard cash?
• Here in Hollywood you can actually get a marriage license printed on an Etch-A-Sketch.