The Function of Leadership is to produce more Leaders, Not more Followers.

The essence of globalization is a subordination of human rights, of labor rights, consumer, environmental rights, democracy rights, to the imperatives of global trade and investment.

The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That's the only difference.

The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.

The clinical definition of "fascism" is when private concentrated economic power takes government away from the people, turns government into a guarantor, a subsidizer, a covering of corporate power.

There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship.

We must strive to become good ancestors.

No presidential candidate should visit Las Vegas without condemning organized gambling.

If you always vote for the lesser of two evils, you will always have evil, and you will always have less.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. The struggle for justice must never be adjourned. The forces of injustice do not take vacations.

A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.

As a filmmaker, you are constantly having the discussion with your team about whether something is "relatable".

With vision only, you get no follow-through. With enforcers only, the vision is realized but leaves a lot of wreckage.

I can't do anything without the ball so when I don't have it I have to go get it!

There are no inferior types of fiction, only inferior practitioners of them.

What is important is how well we love. God will make our love fruitful, whether we see that fruitfulness or not.

Keeping them behind bars does little to reduce crime, but it does a lot to tear apart families, our prisons and our jails are now our mental health institutions.

France is an old country that needs to wake up.

Just because it may take longer, Doesn't mean your dream won't get done.

Softly drops the crimson sun: Softly down from overhead, Drop the bell-notes, one by one, Melting in the melting red.

You have to keep surprising your audience.