Cultural stupidity accounts for virtually every aspect of Sarah Palin, both as a person and a political icon. Which, come to think of it, may be a pretty good reason not to misunderstimate her.

The four cornerstones of the American political psyche are 1) emotion substituted for thought, 2) fear, 3) ignorance and 4) propaganda

They [Christian rednecks] were so stupid that they couldn't pour piss out of a boot even if the instructions were printed on the bottom.

You never know you are in a prison unless you try the door

Never experiencing the life of the mind scars entire families for generations.

The fossil fuel industry for too long has shifted enormous costs of carbon pollution onto the public.

Every artist should want to be like Michael Jackson

The bookis a distant relative of the truth, and the film is a distant relative of the book.

People usually survive their illnesses, but the paper work eventually does them in. Filing a claim for insurance is terminal.

I never really acted at school. It was doing small parts on TV that really got me started.

I was interested in politics since the age of 14.

Conduct is the grand test of character. Words are one great evidence of the condition of the heart.

Nowadays people write English as if a rat were caught in the typewriter and they were trying to hit the keys which wouldn't disturb it.

The first dollar is the most you will get if you don't love what you are doing.

I did not make this film about Frank Abagnale because of what he did . . but because of what he has done with his life the past 30 years.