Every day, no matter how tired my father was, he'd put me in the car and drive me to Schaumburg Public Library, and he'd read to me from books about Dr. King, Mahatma Gandhi, Eleanor Roosevelt.

Minnesotans lost their jobs because the credit rating agencies didn't do the only job they're supposed to have, the only job they had, which is to give accurate, objective ratings to financial products.

Great powers can't get tired, because the international order is not self-governing.

I've got my private life - that's sacred - and I didn't have that before.

If anybody knows that you need to be prepared regardless of the situation, that's me.

Outside of a couple of times I ran without eating right or being too tired, I always feel great after I run.

Personally, it was hard to see Emmitt in red.

I make breakfast, which is usually Kellogg's Red Berries or egg whites, and then I go to the gym that's only 10 minutes away.

Many people lock a part of themselves away. It's a bit sacred.

I did nine years with Travel Channel and had all of these incredible experiences.

If I'm scared of something there's more incentive for me to do it.

When I'm working with Red One, we all have to do everything, from making sets and costumes to tearing tickets. Forget about craft services! So when I get on a film set, it's a thrill to be just working as an actor.

Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.

Military preparedness is absolutely a form of strength.

The characters that aren't what they seem to be or women who are stronger than people give them credit for or characters you underestimate, I always think are really interesting because there are so many possibilities with them.

I got tired of books where the boy is a bit thick and the girl's very clever. Why does it have to such an opposition? Why can't they be like the girls and boys that I know personally, who are equally funny and equally cross? Who get things equally wrong and are equally brave? And make the same mistakes?

I'm really bored by the constant vilifying of people (especially women) for things they didn't say.

We have to cut the red tape, eliminate barriers, and reduce bureaucracy - for all housing, for everyone.

I get bored very quickly.

If I decide to make a coat red in the show, it's not just red, I think: is it communist red? Is it cherry cordial? Is it ruby red? Or is it apple red? Or the big red balloon red?