Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.

Everybody has a right to be stupid, but some people abuse the privilege.

It's not the people who vote that count. It's the people who count the votes.

Great Britain provided time; the United States provided money and Soviet Russia provided blood.

This creature softened my heart of stone. She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity.

Education is a weapon the effect of which is determined by the hands which wield it, by who is to be struck down.

The death of one man is tragic, but the death of thousands is statistic.

When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use.

When there's a person, there's a problem. When there's no person, there's no problem. Josef Stalin

To choose one's victims, to prepare one's plan minutely, to slake an implacable vengeance, and then to go to bed... There is nothing sweeter in the world.

The only real power comes out of a long rifle.

Till there is the Sun, shall not dew parish

If you have a beating heart, that's good enough.

I shoot reality-based movies, and in actual locations, shooting them with a star is next to impossible.

The world needs banking but it does not need banks.

Take the understanding of the East and the knowledge of the West-and then seek.

Long-term, we must figure out a way that the Kurdish territory within Iraq operates with a certain amount of autonomy so that they feel comfortable and safe going back.

Law Number L: The average regulation has a life span one-fifth as long as a chimpanzee's and one-tenth as long as a human's, but four times as long as the official's who created it.

When things change, I think that's easy to get really wrapped up in the complaints.

You can't dream unless you know what the possibilities are.

I always wanted to be on a sitcom.