I just try to be the same guy I've always been. Calm, collected, and being a good decision-maker and delivering the ball to the right guys.
Part of being innovative in government is sometimes not trying to plot out the last chapter of the book, but to be open and see what comes back.
Every effort needs to be made to try and offset the costs of Katrina and Rita by reductions in other government programs, especially those that are wasteful, duplicative and ineffective.
The purpose of the UN mechanism, this inspection mechanism, is not to engage in a cat and mouse game with Saddam Hussein and try to find weapons that the Iraqi government is working on concealing.
I try to avoid saying anything positive about any presidential candidate for fear that if I actually like them then I will kill their campaign.
But we both came to the decision that the powerful thing is to go into your fear, walk in there with it, don't walk away from it, and to try to be true to it.
I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do.
History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.
I can't even say I've begun yet, but I'm trying on the idea that there is a book in my future.
Anything you're trying to will is focused on the future; it's always associated with some sort of anxiety that makes the present moment somewhat uncomfortable.
I think effective leaders typically are able to see the future to a certain degree and then try to take actions to shape it in some way.
The future is in photos for social media. More and more people are not reading, so I try to attach a photo to most Tweets.
What I think is funny is when people, despite tragic situations, are still hopeful, still trying. It's sweet and sad - and, to me, hilarious.
Especially with comedy, you take massive risks because ultimately you're trying to be funny. If you're not funny, then it's really embarrassing and you look stupid.
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.
I'm always trying to find the next comedian that just gives me something a little funny to combine with all of the depressing news that I'm processing.
If you have an impulse, not if you're going to ruin someone elses' scene, if you have an impulse of a funny little add-on or taking something in a weird direction, try it.
Of course, the wind sort of swept up and the music was flying around in mid air and they were trying to play off it. You had to be there. It was quite funny.
Even when I was saying I was Agnostic and trying to figure out my thoughts, I felt God was allowing me to do that.
In a play, the director is God, and I'm a great arguer. Rather boringly so, I think, about trying different things.
If God, as some now say, is dead, He no doubt died of trying to find an equitable solution to the Arab-Jewish problem.
