I've been fortunate that a lot of roles I've done have been professionals and not your TV stereotype of Latinos.

After graduation, I moved to Los Angeles to do more theater, not realizing there is very little theater in L.A. It was a lucky mistake, though, because after just 2 1/2 months of waiting tables, my TV and film career really took off.

The hope of a nation depends on a president that will follow through even in the most unfavorable of political climates.

I want to stop making decisions based on money, start saying no to stuff I don't have fun with anymore.

The government would be making decisions about what type of care is given, what procedures can be performed, and the kind of medications prescribed. It would be a very profound change from the ideal to which we aspire.

I may have come into politics with an unacknowledged condescension toward the game and the people who played it, but I left with more respect for politicians than when I went in. The worst of them - the careerists and predators - you find in all professions. The best of them were a credit to democracy.

We say less things about Australians than Australians say about us, calling me a dictator, authoritarian government.

As a government, it is our responsibility to maintain security for all citizens in Darfur.