When the U.S. government is serious about doing something that's complicated and difficult, it can do it.

This whole force is utterly demoralized by victory. There seems to be neither head nor tail.

You shall hear a good account of me or of my death.

It is much simpler and easier to collect and caress the trophies of our democratic inheritance than it is to fashion up-to-date tools with which to work on our current problems.

When the financial crisis arrived, it seemed to me that this was something I had to make a movie about.

Forgive me, I must start by pointing out that three years after our horrific financial crisis caused by financial fraud, not a single financial executive has gone to jail, and that's wrong.

I sort of plunged into filmmaking. I decided I'd jump off the deep end, so I started thinking about what kind of a movie I should try to make.

I'd been a film maniac since I was very young; by the time I was eight or nine years old, I was hooked on movies.

A fierce and sentimental addiction to forms makes us shudder at change. It is much easier to say that the system is all right-only the people need to be improved.

I'm actually all in favor of freeing the entrepreneurial spirit - but it turns out, interestingly, that you actually need very strict regulations to free the entrepreneurial spirit.

WikiLeaks combines several of my prior interests in technology, policy questions, and journalism.

Stop fussing over me, woman. I will be whole again shortly, and then you can resume ogling me and desiring my body.

Here is the fate of the man: To appear and to disappear!

Tragedy cannot take place around a type. Suffering is the most individualizing thing on earth.

I consider high-speed data transmission an invention that became a major innovation. It changed the way we all communicate

You soothe my soul. You fill it with so tender a sentiment that it is sweet to live during the time that I see you.

I meditate but not regularly. I wish I did more meditation. It's always my New Year's resolution to do more.

Never make a promise - you may have to keep it.

If I could not go to heaven with but a party, I would not go there at all. Therefore, I am not of the party of federalists. But I am much further from that of the anti-federalists.

Change comes from a degree of discomfort that allows for and spurs thought and action.