Never hate someone you dont even know; at least, not over petty issues — Denis Leary

"I would never do crack. I would never do a drug named after a part of my own ass, okay?"

"The people you would have overdose on drugs never would. Like Mötley Crüe would never fucking overdose, man, never. You could put them in a room with two tons of crack, theyd come out half an hour later, goin "ROCK ON MAN!"

"Making a key decision now for our kids, its religion decision time, you know...and Im not bringing em up Catholic. Ive made that decision. Boy, because I was raised Catholic, and NOO WAY! Uh-uh! Nope! Know what? I cant bring up my kids in a church whose authority system is entirely based on the size of fucking hats, okay? Thats apparently how the Catholic church is run. The bigger the hat, the more important the guy, right? Priests have no hats, cardinals have those little red beanies, the pope has a collection of big hats...God must have a huge fucking sombrero up there in heaven! "Look at me, Im GOD! Look at the size of my hat, who else would I be?" I dont know, lead singer of Los Lobos?"

"And when it comes time to confess your sins in the Lapsed Catholic Church, guess who you confess your sins to? Thats right, Father Leary. You walk in and say, "Bless me, Father, for I have sinned." You know what I say? "Thats fucking great! What did you do?" "I, um, thought impure thoughts many times this week- "Fuckin excellent! What else?" "Uh, I jerked off like five times-" "Thats FUCKING great! You know what your penance is? Run across the street to that store, steal two cases of beer and a pizza, and bring it back here, OK? Cause were gonna sit around the rectory and smoke and eat pizza and drink beer and watch TV, and if we see the pope on TV, were gonna give him the finger and make fun of his hats, OK?"

"(talking about Marv Albert) Marv, Marv, Marv, Marv, Marv, Marv, Marv. This is God, what the HELL were you thinking?!?"

"Youre 18 years old, youre in a 7-11, you dont know shit about shit and PULL UP YOUR PANTS!"

"I say this to you because we Spaniards are a forgetful people, because we are used to living for the moment, because we do not look back, because we do not know how to see the chain of heroes, because we do not contemplate the sum of sacrifices."

"If it fulfills our hopes, this center will be, at once, a symbol and a reflection and a hope. It will symbolize our belief that the world of creation and thought are at the core of all civilization. Only recently in the White House we helped commemorate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare. The political conflicts and ambitions of his England are known to the scholar and to the specialist. But his plays will forever move men in every corner of the world. The leaders that he wrote about live far more vividly in his words than in the almost forgotten facts of their own rule. Our civilization, too, will largely survive in the works of our creation. There is a quality in art which speaks across the gulf dividing man from man and nation from nation, and century from century. That quality confirms the faith that our common hopes may be more enduring than our conflicting hostilities. Even now men of affairs are struggling to catch up with the insights of great art. The stakes may well be the survival of civilization. The personal preferences of men in government are not important--except to themselves. However, it is important to know that the opportunity we give to the arts is a measure of the quality of our civilization. It is important to be aware that artistic activity can enrich the life of our people, which really is the central object of Government. It is important that our material prosperity liberate and not confine the creative spirit."

"There was a man and he had eight sons. Apart from that, he was nothing more than a comma on the page of History. Its sad, but thats all you can say about some people."

"Children must be free to think in all directions irrespective of the peculiar ideas of parents who often seal their childrens minds with preconceived prejudices and false concepts of past generations. Unless we are very careful, very careful indeed, and very conscientious, there is still great danger that our children may turn out to be the same kind of people we are."

"I hear people say I swing at bad pitches. What is a bad pitch? If I can hit it, its not a bad pitch."

"A free people will always refuse to put up with preventable poverty. If freedom is to be saved and enlarged, poverty must be ended. There is no other solution. The problem of how to prevent these three forces from coming into head-on collision is the principal study of the more politically conscious Conservative leaders. How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? Here lies the whole art of Conservative politics in the twentieth century."