The fights I fought... cost a lot --the fight for the assault-weapons ban cost 20 members their seats in Congress. The NRA is the reason the Republicans control the House.

There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who have seen the Taj Mahal and love it and those who have not seen the Taj and love it.

We cannot build our own future without helping others to build theirs.

I did not have sexual relations with that woman

NAFTA means jobs. American jobs, and good paying American jobs. If I didn't believe that, I wouldn't support this agreement.

It is dangerously destabilizing to have half the world on the cutting edge of technology while the other half struggles on the bare edge of survival.

Globalisation is not something that we can hold off or turn off. It is the economic equivalent of a force of nature, like wind or water.

It depends upon what the meaning of the word 'is' is.

I admire that about the Republicans: The evidence does not faze them. They are not bothered at all by the facts.

Considering the current sad state of our computer programs, software development is clearly still a black art, and cannot yet be called an engineering discipline.

AIDS is no longer a death sentence for those who can get the medicines. Now it's up to the politicians to create the "comprehensive strategies" to better treat the disease.

A beautiful battle is one you don't have to fight

Temptations make one very censorious. If you are virtuous you condemn the wicked and if you are wicked, you condemn the virtuous.

Soccer is a game for 22 people that run around, play the ball, and one referee who makes a slew of mistakes, and in the end Germany always wins.

Only God Forgives was very much a generation gap in a way. It was all the youth of the world that embraced it. I make films for young people. That's what I will continue to do.

It's not always the things we do that make the biggest difference in our lives; it's often the things we avoid doing that have the biggest effect.

Truthfulness under oath is, by now, a matter of our civic religion, our relation to our fellow citizens rather than our relation to a nonhuman power.

The radio comes back even louder than you remember it.

I will stand off the forces of the entire country here... and die a resplendent death.

You want to surround yourself with people who are as dedicated to their discipline as you are to yours and let them do what they do.

I'm in all of my work, and there's nowhere to hide when you make work.