Whoever is holding the power says, "Yeah, let's keep things civil and quiet." Whoever's outside say's, "No, I'm not going to keep things civil and quiet, I'm going to bang on the door."

Liberalism doesn't speak to ideals. Radicalism does.

The Cold War was really the great struggle of the 20th Century and it shaped American political life from top to bottom.

What the Cold War did was provide a fairly clearly defined enemy and it's easy to organize around that.

Elite fundamentalism has always going to be involved with a certain set of conservative interests, but certainly not exclusively Republican.

Fundamentalism is a 20th-century phenomenon, but that kind of religious fervor actually has not always been associated with conservative goals.

There are real radical Muslim groups out there that really are pretty villainous. You don't have to make them up.

Liberals were just as engaged and using the rhetoric of a sort of a battle with the Soviets and with Communism in general, with an evil empire.

The Family is the oldest and arguably most influential religious political organization in Washington.

You can recruit the populace conservatism for the interests of corporate conservatism that the two things can be married into one unholy union.

Elite fundamentalism has always been on the corporate side of things.

The meeting of the two lonely souls is the meeting of the dark sea with the moonlight.

We only make the mistakes that we have to make to learn what we're here to learn right now.

The most frequent way that I will communicate with him Obamacis when we're traveling. We talk about what's in the news, and I hear him talking about issues that are important to him.

We leave traces of ourselves wherever we go, on whatever we touch.

I had been nine years in the theatre and hadn't had massive success. My only thing was I wanted to be an actor and I didn't care when, where, or how much for.

Yes, my kids come first, but as a parent I need to come to them with a fresh mind. I can't be too exhausted or too tired. And I am a better parent when I have more energy.

I have a bit of a frustrated dancer in me.

I like having a plot, I like characters with a reason to get up in the morning.

A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction.

Disordered love always leads to misery and breakdown. The only way to 'reorder' our loves is to love God supremely.