For one thing I tend not to see myself in various moulds that people fit me into.

I like globalization; I want to say it works, but it is hard to say that when six hundred million people are slipping backwards.

We did not go to war in Afghanistan or in Iraq to, quote, 'impose democracy.' We went to war in both places because we saw those regimes as a threat to the United States.

Iraq has no history of ethnic conflict.

For the private sector to flourish, special privilege must give way to equal opportunity and equal risk for all.

I wish there were somebody I could be comfortable voting for. I might have to vote for Hillary Clinton, even though I have big reservations about her.

That sense of what happened in Europe in World War II has shaped a lot of my views.

Sometimes corruption is slowed by shedding light into what was previously shadowed.

The American people are pretty impressive in their ability to keep after something if they think it is doable.

I think all foreigners should stop interfering in the internal affairs of Iraq. Those who want to come and help are welcome. Those who come to interfere and destroy are not.

History is just littered with problems that were solved that were supposed to be impossible.

True love is not so much a matter of romance as it is a matter of anxious concern for the well-being of one's companion.

Focus isn't about hammering one nail all our lives.It’s about hammering lots of nails, one way, all our lives.

You plant the gospel. You don't plant churches.

Magna Charta is such a fellow, that he will have no sovereign

What a price we pay for experience, when we must sell our youth to buy it.

You can not have comedy unless people are behaving badly. You can't have it.

So long as I know what's boiling in my pot I don't bother my head about what's in other people's.

Learning is the making of meaning.

With my horror movies or with this movie [Valley of Violence], same thing. The subtext of this movie is what to take away from it. Plot is never something that's been my driving force as a filmmaker.

It seems to me that before the photograph can exist as art it must, by its very nature choose whether it is to be a record or a testimony.