We've been polarizing for different reasons. For one thing, my voice is very polarizing. It sits in this place that either appeals to people or really puts people off. I can understand that.
I can give substantive advice to the administration, the president's campaign, or any campaign that would ask for it. And, of course, when I speak I can talk about my views on policy and I have been supportive of the president's policy on leading foreign-policy issues.
I'm glad I can present a polished version of myself when it counts.
I don't make political work. I don't make work that criticises the state. I make as human work as I can.
Unlike some politicians, I can admit to a mistake.
I think my mission is to become the greatest human I can. I know that sounds pompous, but what else do we have?
I talk as I sketch, too, in order to keep their minds off what I'm doing so I'll get the most natural expression I can from them. Also, the talking helps to size up the subject's personality, so I can figure out better how to portray him.
I hope that I can be a role model and positive influence to anyone else who is struggling with insecurities within themselves.
I've by and large been a positive person ever since I can remember.
I've tried to take the opportunity to be as positive a person as I can be, as positive role model as I can be.
I'm not the 'chosen one.' I'm just one of many who have been given gifts. I can write. I can bloviate on TV. So I'm trying to use the gifts in a positive way. And I believe that's all directed. And that's why I'm here on the planet.
I've always played the love interest. I've trained for it for a while. These roles are just molds I can pour myself into.
The single most powerful thing I can be is to be myself.
When I am angry I can pray well and preach well.
Sometimes I feel like I'm a preacher as well, 'cause I can really get into an audience.
No ideas are harmed in the making of my books, by the way. All I do with my best ideas is run with them, fast as I can, taking notes and occasionally suggesting a left hand turn rather than the right hand one which might have taken us both over a precipice.
Pregnancy isn't 'I can eat whatever I want,' because you have to remember you're going to be stuck with a lot of that weight afterwards that you need to try to get off.
I'm not prejudiced in any way that I can think of. That's just not the guy I am.
I taught preschool previously, so I was like, 'Oh, I can teach little kids to act, and I can go back home.'
I can remember the morning after President Nixon won re-election in 1972. His chief of staff, H.R. Haldeman, called a Cabinet meeting and told the members: 'You are all a bunch of burned-out volcanoes;' and asked for their resignations.
