Economic research demonstrates that tax dollars spent in early childhood development provide extraordinary return on investment-16% for high quality programs

Our goal isn't to close Wal-Mart down. It is to make it a better, more humane company toward its employees and the communities it is in.

What I always try to do is make the political personal.

People may be surprised at how hard and difficult filmmaking can be, having the creativity and the technical aspects together is very hard to do.

It appears the Kochs are among the most defensive billionaires, preferring the comfy confines of their callous and intellectually dishonest world view.

The Occupy movement has drawn attention to how too many in the 1 percent get to play by their own rules while exploiting the 99 percent.

Corporate conglomerates run without regulation do not work in the service of society, and run reckless and unchecked whenever possible.

We know that BP cuts safety corners, takes risks, and is unconcerned about anything other than their own profit.

Ideology has consequences.

It makes no sense to spend $6 billion a month to go after 100 Al Qaeda in Afghanistan.

Admiration provides no saving grace for the inconvenient.

Some people believe in imaginary friends. I believe in imaginary numbers.

The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.

You'll say I'm self-destructive I constructed all this tragedy. Go tell them all it's all my fault You'll tell them I was crazy . And anyway it's over now Nothing left to say.

You need not cry very loud; he is nearer to us than we think.

I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.

The soft-minded man always fears change. He feels security in the status quo, and he has an almost morbid fear of the new. For him, the greatest pain is the pain of a new idea.

I really lived life to its fullest and that got me in trouble from time to time.

We're all shipwrecked on this idea that everything has to be explained.

The grand irony, however, is that Southern segregation was not brought to an end, nor redneck violence dramatically reduced, by violence.