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.

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.

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.

. . . solitude, which is held to be cause of eccentricity, in fact imposes excessive normality, and least in public . . . [p. 7]

The mind has its own logic but does not often let others in on it.

We will glorify war-the world's only hygiene, milliterism, patriotism , the destructive gesture of freedom-bringers, beautiful ideas worth dying for, and scorn for woman

Love you all the time, 'cause when I close my eyes, I still can see your smile, it's bright enough to light my life

Nothing is difficult, if you seek it through your Lord; nothing is easy, if you seek it through your self.

I'm going to kick you in the head when I get home. Repeatedly.

Even within traditional universities there has always been debate about whether it wouldn't be better to focus on only one course at a time.

I kept waiting for him to lay bare something more than this pointed unobjectionableness, but all that rose to the surface was more surface

When it comes to the news, the corporate view is 'objective,' all else is propaganda.

Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.