Detroit's political leadership is a parasite that has outgrown its host.

The thing that makes me feel young, honestly, is making television. It's the only thing that excites me, the way that you get excited when you're a kid. That's why I still do it.

The great scandal of American life is that we pay for German levels of government without enjoying the related benefits.

Benign environmentalists are opposed to pollution, as all sensible people are; malign environmentalists are opposed to energy and most of what it enables.

If you're not willing to have somebody hauled off at gunpoint over the project, then it's probably not a legitimate concern of the state.

I love to go back and write and direct another film one day, but that's on the backburner for now because I'm involved with so much television at the moment.

I'm always going to look and refer to things and remember things differently than perhaps a real or honest viewer can. I'm tainted with knowing too much. But I still very much love it.

I look at it [Scream movie] and think, wow, I can't believe I wrote that at such a young age. I also look at it and go, ohhh ouch, that dialogue, whoa.

Health care and education are too important NOT to be left to the free market.

The difference between communism and socialism is that under socialism central planning ends with a gun in your face, whereas under communism central planning begins with a gun in your face.

Marriage is a full time job

At an early age, I started my own paper route. Once I saw how you could service people and do a good job and get paid for it, I just wanted to be the best I could be in whatever I did.

We are not all leaders. We are called leaders.

Maybe the best thing you'll ever do, you haven't even thought of yet.

What we have in Colombia is a war against the poor and the guerillas from the left side are against the poor.

I'm going to put on my gravestone, 'He never owned a cell phone.'

I think feminism has always been global. I think there's feminism everywhere throughout the world.

It's a combination of targeting higher paying jobs in these growth areas and fostering closer cooperation with higher education; a rising tide that lifts all boats.

Over the years, Western governments have been criticized for working with foreign police who have proved abusive or corrupt.

Beware of geeks bearing formulas.