"New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin said that..." - Quote by Amy Poehler

“I like hard work and I don’t like pretending things are perfect.”

“Listen. Say yes. Live in the moment. Make sure you play with people who have your back. Make big choices early and often.”

“An interesting thing about the beginning of our friendship and professional collaboration [with Tina Fey] was that the improve scenes we would do together were basically dramatic and not funny at all.”

“Once you've put one of his [Henry James] books down, you simply can't pick it up again.”

“An old Russian woman goes into Kremlin, gets an audience with Mikhail Gorbachev and says, In America anyone can go to the White House, walk up to Reagan's desk and say, 'I don't like the way you are running the country.' Gorbachev replied, You can do the same thing in the Soviet Union. You can go into the Kremlin, walk up to my desk and say 'I don't like the way Reagan is running his country.'”

“Tea is an affront to lunch and an insult to dinner.”

“It is not alone that property, in all its forms, is struck at, but that liberty, in all its forms, is challenged by the fundamental conceptions of socialism.”

“President-elect [Donald] Trump won 30 of 50 states, more counties since Ronald Reagan.”

“There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains.”