"I'm a Midwesterner! Not being able to have a cheeseburger once in a while would be torture!"

"Listen, the obvious thing to remember is without dark, there is no light, and without light, there is no dark."

"I don't know if it's ever OK for someone to be selfish. Perhaps there's a time and place to be self-centered, but I think selfish never wins the race."

"Being a mom has been my most important job to date, and I take my job very seriously, and I have a lot of fun doing it."

"Women were freed from positive duties when they could not perform them, but not when they could."

"It's interesting that I had such a close relationship with my grandfather. Because your parents always judge you: they say, 'You shouldn't do this, you shouldn't do that.' But with your grandparents you have a feeling that you can say anything or you can do anything, and they will support you. That's why you have this kind of connection."

"The real problem was not the troops; the real problem was that only the United States had the infrastructure to do the transport of troops with big planes, and then who will pay?"

"Our solution on 'The Simpsons' is to do jokes that people who have an education, or some frame of reference, can get. And for the ones who don't, it doesn't matter, because we have Homer banging his head and saying, 'D'oh!'"