My film about Bush didn't prevent his reelection.

As far as what I do love, I love birds; I love lavender.

Democracy is not a spectator sport, it's a participatory event. If we don't participate in it, it ceases to be a democracy.

A lot of people on Capitol Hill don't want to talk to me.

I'm interested to see what happens with Fox News and phone hacking. I really can't believe it just happens in Great Britain. Because really, who cares about just hacking phones over there?

There's a gullible side to the American people. They can be easily misled. Religion is the best device used to mislead them.

I'm a millionaire, I'm a multi-millionaire, I'm filthy rich. You know why I'm a multi-millionaire? 'Cause multi-millions like what I do.

The Iraqis who have risen up against the occupation are not 'insurgents' or 'terrorists' or 'The Enemy.' They are the REVOLUTION, the Minutemen, and their numbers will grow - and they will win.

This book, 'Stupid White Men,' has sold now over four million copies worldwide. Probably about half of that may be in the U.S. and Canada, and the rest, overseas.

Any time you got the Pope and the Dixie Chicks against you, your time is up.

Back in the '80s and '90s, when GM was consistently posting giant profits, they were simultaneously firing tens of thousands of workers in my hometown of Flint and across Michigan.

Audiences like to be challenged and to be actively involved and try to guess an outcome.

I learn from every movie I do because on every movie, I have a different experience.

There is no comfort looking forth nor back, The present gives the lie to all her past.

It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.

I have to say, music was always my self preservation survival technique. This sort of sacred space in my life and in my mind.

I always considered myself the world's worst actress.

Some people as a result of adversity are sadder, wiser, kinder, more human. Most of us are better, though, when things go better.

To launch a business means successfully solving problems. Solving problems means listening.

There are no grotesques in nature; not anything framed to fill up empty cantons, and unnecessary spaces.

What's really fun is to write under different names.