Never stand and take a charge... charge them too.

Abolish the Loyal League and the Ku Klux Klan; let us come together and stand together.

We have but one flag, one country; let us stand together. We may differ in color, but not in sentiment.

We are born on the same soil, breathe the same air, live on the same land, and why should we not be brothers and sisters?

I have stood your meanness as long as I intend to. You have played the part of a damn scoundrel, and if you were any part of a man I would slap your jaws and force you to resent it.

Nobody kills me and lives to tell about it.

I will be in my coffin before I will fight again under your command.

If one road led to hell and the other to Mexico, I would be indifferent which to take.

If you surrender you shall be treated as prisoners of war, but if I haveto storm your works you may expect no quarter.

I done told you twice already goddammit no!

War means fighting, and fighting means killing.

Usually it is through loss that things come to be of value.

Love and trust and justice, concern for the poor, that's being pushed to the margins, and you can see it.

It's interesting because I laugh and tell people when I give speeches, ' I know what y'all think, oh we love Ed, but he's kinda stuck up or he's kinda this or he's kinda that.'

You may talk. And I may listen. And miracles might happen.

I know that I'm a real writer because sometimes I write a story just because I want to; not because someone's told me to.

The secret of directing is working with really good people.

I think for a lot of people that had seen me do Snabba Cash, after watching The Killing, I think they got a sense that I could do different kinds of characters.

The Shriver Report presents an accurate and detailed portrait of American women and families at this transformational moment in our history.

When actors go onstage, you know immediately if they can do their job. You can be a lawyer or an accountant for years and not find out.

The free economy is not the enemy but the friend of social capital.