Instead of being taught independence, energy, and enterprise, our youth today is taught to look for security.
We need to remind our core supporters that we have not forgotten their concern with the way our democracy is being replaced by European bureaucracy in so many areas.
It's not enough just being a good passer of the ball.
A theater is being given over to market forces, which means that a whole generation that should be able to do theater as well as see it is being completely deprived.
And maybe that's being the third child, although my entire family are very resilient - very, very resilient.
I don't want to have to say, Honey, you know, could you turn off the sports channel because I'm not a big sports fan, and I don't love the television being on just for the sake of turning on. I'd like turning on for some thing specific.
As an actor and as a person you come together with being in familiar territory although that has not been my whole life. That's been a part of it. I think a lot of people associate me with the west because of Sundance.
My audience is the baby-boomers, the bulk of the population. This is also a group that is being ignored by most record companies because they're not the Top 40 hit singles market. They forget these people still listen to music.
There is a wealth of twentieth century music that is being re-discovered by a generation that hasn't heard it.
There is no magic person out there, no perfect human being out there waiting for you.
I worked with my parents on the stage in production numbers since I was 4, but I never really gave much thought to being a performer on my own until I was 12 or 13.
But I'm a historian. I wasn't interested in just being a producer, I was interested in doing research and presenting that research to a general public.
But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret.
Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere as long as the policy you've decided upon is being carried out.
The thought of being President frightens me and I do not think I want the job.