I don't want a lot of bureaucracy... I want to run state government the same way we run a campaign - efficient, effective and victorious.
Higher taxes is the road to ruin. We must and we will shrink our government, and that means making some tough choices, tightening our belts.
Someone has to stay on the line and say, no, we can do this by cutting spending and reducing the size of government. That's what I was committed to doing.
When you're encouraging - the government is encouraging guns to be sold illegally to people that shouldn't have them, the laws aren't being faithfully executed.
My government has the challenge of addressing the issue of gas. The issue of gas cannot be addressed today without the participation of all Bolivians alike.
Socialism's not a word that I use. I say 'social democracy' because I don't think the government needs to own all the means of production.
My own belief is that the way we grow the economy, create jobs, create wealth is in the private sector. The government doesn't do that.
I've always been fond of the saying that when it comes to oversight and reform, the federal government does two things well: nothing and overreact.
It is our duty to watch over the actions and activities of this government and to insist that, in words as well as in deeds, the interests of our constituency primarily and of the Nation ultimately are served.
The day I made that statement, about the inventing the internet, I was tired because I'd been up all night inventing the Camcorder.
Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
I know from the middle distance I give off the look of being prolific, which is a funny compliment to receive.
Do you know anything that in all its innocence is more humiliating than the funny pages of a Sunday newspaper in America?
In all my years as an actor, I had never been me - I had always hidden behind my glasses, mustaches and funny voices.
It's painful for me to watch someone who isn't funny. It's horrifying to sit in the back and watch some guy who just totally sucks.
That's my only goal. Surround myself with funny people, and make sure everyone has a good time and works hard.
The audience changes every night. You're the same person. You have to speak your mind and do the stuff that you think is funny and makes you laugh.
The misconception is that standup comics are always on. I don't know any really funny comics that are annoying and constantly trying to be funny all the time.
Hemingway seems to be in a funny position. People nowadays can't identify with him closely as a member of their own generation, and he isn't yet historical.
The simile has to match the tone of its surroundings and has to be like a little joke. Writing a simile that isn't funny on some level is quite hard.
But Wall Street people are in fact very smart; they're funny, they're not company men who work their way up the chain.
