“It’s silly that there’s a liberal bias in media. Obviously, there are liberal voices and there are conservative voices. But overwhelmingly, media in the United States–television, newspapers, and that sort of thing–the bias shifts towards the right. It’s a center-right media in this country.”
“Government is not inherently bad. Government is inherently good. That is why we have a Constitution, and we direct the activities of this government based upon that Constitution.”
“I know that this has been some of the conventional wisdom that’s been floating around Washington: That somehow, even though most people agree that I’m being reasonable, that most people agree that I’m presenting a fair deal – the fact that they don’t take it, means that I should somehow do a Jedi mindmeld with these folks and convince them to do what’s right.”
“We don’t need to be having something like sequestration that’s going to cause these job losses — over 170 million jobs that could be lost.”
“It’s easy to say we gotta cut. We gotta cut! Let’s just cut! Cut more! Hell, let’s just cut everything! It’s easy to do that. But when you start affecting jobs and you start affecting people’s lives and you start affecting what people want, the people have to matter, OK? I mean, we have, we have to matter and the political element to all of this is, they want Obama to fail. Now you’ve got a budget of three and a half trillion dollars in this fiscal year. This will take $85 billion out of it. That’s damn near a third.”
“When was the last time you heard about a rape on campus?”
“And you know, talk about something else is falling from the sky. And that is an asteroid. What’s coming our way? Is this an effect of perhaps global warming or just some meteoric occasion? “
“The President of the United States is our boss, but he’s also, you know, the president and the first lady are kind of like the mom and the dad of the country. And when your dad says something, you listen, and when you don’t, it usually bites you in the ass later on.”
