I think all kids need snacks. Mine are fruit machines. I give them things like apple slices, berries and melon. Do I let them eat ice cream? Absolutely. But not every day.

Onstage, I find absolutely nothing but exhilaration in not talking.

No word is absolutely wrong or dirty or insulting. It all depends upon context and intention.

I don’t think I’ve ever sent a text to Gordon Brown because I’m confident that he would absolutely have no idea how to receive it. He barely managed to master WordPerfect 4.1.

I am absolutely delighted to get back into football with Livingston.

I would be absolutely honored if I made Jon Hamm crack, because he is uncrackable.

We ask the military to be in a position that, if we ask them to do a task, they are absolutely able to do it for us.

I knew Barack Obama, absolutely. And I knew him probably as well as thousands of other Chicagoans.

There are two or three performances in your life that are absolutely on, where all the planets are lined up for you and you feel you’re invincible.

I believe I am the highest power, absolutely.

I’m one of the only members of the U.S. Senate who isn’t a millionaire. And there’s absolutely nothing wrong with being a millionaire. But there ought to be a little economic diversity in the Senate...