We are a communicating nation which needs access to space, access to the seas.

You talked about national identity cards and the terrorism bill. We have made a government that has grown used to viewing us as subjects, has grown used to seeing its role as commanding us.

We don't need a nation that has national identity cards.

Government, which does not and did not grant us our rights, must not now seek to deny them by using fear as its justification.

Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies.

I don't think the only place to fight for freedom is in the halls of Congress.

I'm a big supporter of immigration.

It's insanity for a party that believes in freedom to allow some Republicans to seize an agenda that is totally alien to the agenda that was established in the election.

Yes, many immigrants cherish the value of choice and opportunity and the value of education more than 7th or 8th generation Americans.

The utter incompetence of the U.N. is literally incomprehensible.

Being American is not a matter of birth. We must practice it every day, lest we become something else.

Resources are hired to give results, not reasons.

I love those who can smile in trouble...

If you could cross a lion and a monkey, that's what I'd be, because monkeys are funny and lions are strong.

For a man to argue, 'I don't go to church; I pray alone,' is no wiser than if he should say, 'I have no use for symphonies; I believe only in solo music.'

The celebrated Adam Smith was the first to point out the immense increase of production, and the superior perfection of products referable to this division of labour.

I often have scripts sent to me with allegedly Scottish characters where I end up telling them, 'You're going to have to rethink this whole thing!

Is it worth getting one more tweet out, or putting your phone down and doing something that is worth tweeting?

I'm happy - at times - making films. I'm certainly unhappy not making films.

I want people to see the dress, but focus on the woman.

Nothing is as hopeless as trying to justify art in words.