I have a very real political awareness that at least on a transient basis the more drastic action taken by the president, the more popular it is.

The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens.

What are the things that you can't see that are important? I would say justice, truth, humility, service, compassion, love...They're the guiding lights of a life.

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.

We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.

All I want is the same thing you want. To have a nation with a government that is as good and honest and decent and competent and compassionate and as filled with love as are the American people.

We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.

The test of a government is not how popular it is with the powerful and privileged few but how honestly and fairly it deals with the many who must depend on it.

America has no functioning democracy at this moment.

If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.

It is difficult for the common good to prevail against the intense concentration of those who have a special interest, especially if the decisions are made behind locked doors.

In my card catalogue, the Dewey Decimal System had placed him firmly under Ancient History.

Normal is not a part of my vocabulary. I am an artist after all.

The most important influence in my childhood was my father.

And there's no one there to dry your tears. I could hold you for a million years. To make you feel my love.

Life and work are the most wonderful things a man can have.

Globalization has delivered many benefits for international donors, but it's the job of politicians to represent the people - and to put American workers first.

There is a road that turning always Cuts off the country of Again. Archers stand there on every side And as it runstime's deer is slain, And lies where it has lain.

My mother did what many men do. She left.

A man should believe in God through faith, not because of miracles.

I always bring it up to my lawyer every now and then. And another reason we have to revisit it is because there is a restoration going on right now for the film through UCLA and Sundance.