Think of the millions of young men who died fighting for democracy. We spit on their graves when we let democracy slip away into the sewer of illegal money.

If we Americans are split into two meaningful camps, it is not conservative versus liberal. The two camps are the politically awake and the hypnotized.

There are two kinds of politics in the world: the politics of love and the politics of fear.

Democracy is not something we have. It's something we do.

Small towns make up for their lack of people by having everyone be more interesting.

I'm not against the corporations. They are our wealth. But they are getting too greedy. I don't want to do away with corporations. I want them to make our cars, however, not our laws.

But the truth doesn't need to be known, or believed, to be true.

Government does not solve problems. It subsidizes them.

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.

That's the way love sounds, my mother told me. You think it should feel like honey, but instead it cuts like a knife.

I stopped making films to look after animals.

The character of a whole society is the cumulative result of countless small actions, day in and day out, of millions of persons.

Oh, God, who does not exist, you hate women, otherwise you'd have made them different. And Jesus, who snubbed your mother, you hate them more.

I got on stage for the first time when I was seven. From seven until I was about nine it was probably more to do with just being on stage and having the attention.

I try to sing whatever the music makes me feel. And we play so much music from the other records at shows that I hope no one will miss the old style too much.

Fencing is more a sport than a martial art. It would be like basing your knowledge of roman phalanx warfare on NFL football.