There was never in my mind a desire to give in on the subject of freeing the political prisoners.

There was no censorship of the press: in general, the War Measures Act could have been made even more radical.

I have always said that we did not expect a revolution in the streets.

There is nothing more foreign to a civilised and democratic system than preventive detention.

It is very difficult to know what may be in the back of the mind of public figures.

We all have the means to be prosperous. We have to find the balance between our wealth and our needs

Income from labor [in the United States] is about as unequally distributed as has ever been observed anywhere.

Nothing else in the whole wide world matters as much as avenging your sister.

When I was a teenager, I began to settle into school because I'd discovered the extracurricular activities that interested me: music and theater.

What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

I believe in status symbols.

I do not want to make this charge. I do not see how it can succeed. I would not make it now but that General Lee has ordered it and expects it.

An organization is a set of relationships that are persistent over time.

When I'm promoting a film, I'm not going to get caught up in anything else, and that includes all my personal things.

Whenever you do anything or say anything, you're opening yourself up to criticism. But that's okay.

To survive is to win.