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

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.

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.

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

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.

To my shame, my nation and the church of the lord Jesus Christ in my continent is covered head to toe in this ignorance.

They were never defeated they were only killed.

When I was 18 I was an emotional wreck and I couldn't imagine having to deal with some kind of fame.

Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.

The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

There are so many selves in everybody, and just to explore and exploit one is wrong, dead wrong, for the creative person.

My national service is part of my training for freeing my soul from the bondage of the flesh.

The spirit of 1776 is not dead. It had only been slumbering. The body of the American people is substantially republican.

We call interconnected order beautiful. When interrupted, we call it chaos.

My cousin's a fool, and thou art another.