Our goal isn't to close Wal-Mart down. It is to make it a better, more humane company toward its employees and the communities it is in.

What I always try to do is make the political personal.

People may be surprised at how hard and difficult filmmaking can be, having the creativity and the technical aspects together is very hard to do.

It appears the Kochs are among the most defensive billionaires, preferring the comfy confines of their callous and intellectually dishonest world view.

Economic research demonstrates that tax dollars spent in early childhood development provide extraordinary return on investment-16% for high quality programs

The Occupy movement has drawn attention to how too many in the 1 percent get to play by their own rules while exploiting the 99 percent.

Corporate conglomerates run without regulation do not work in the service of society, and run reckless and unchecked whenever possible.

We know that BP cuts safety corners, takes risks, and is unconcerned about anything other than their own profit.

Ideology has consequences.

It makes no sense to spend $6 billion a month to go after 100 Al Qaeda in Afghanistan.

A home is a place one's heart creates and so recognizes as its own. A place it enters of its own free will. All others are merely dwelling places.

In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins, not through strength but by perseverance.

The king reigns but does not govern.

A life without change is not a life; it is a stagnant pool.

Don't look at me like that, Michael Cole.

There have been more people disenfranchised in Washington than there have been in Kuwait.

As a brand marketer, I'm a big believer in 'branding the customer experience,' not just selling the service.

We are cooling. We are not warming. The warming you see out there, the supposed warming, and I use my finger quotation marks here, is part of the cooling process.

I got married really fast and really young.

In the silence between your heartbeat bides a summons. Do you hear it? Name it if you must, or leave it forever nameless, but why pretend it is not there?