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

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

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.

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.

Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you.

There is a face beneath this mask, but it isn't me. I'm no more that face than I am the muscles beneath it, or the bones beneath that.

Don't judge without having heard both sides. Even persons who think themselves virtuous very easily forget this elementary rule of prudence.

Daughters hate their mothers; I think it's the law of nature. But you know what? Then they come back.

Let me give you a word of advice. A loyalty that holds fast will become a blade, and will some day pierce those you hold dear. Open both eyes wide. That is, if you… don’t want to end up like me.

It is a far worthier thing to read by the light of experience than to adorn oneself with the labors of others.

Have the courage to follow your dreams. It's the first step towards attaining your destiny.

The Democrats in particular are do-nothing guys.

Is it ever really a waste of time to love someone, truly and deeply, with everything you have?

You are born and then you die, but in between you can do anything you want. It's society that creates rules for us, but you can break out of that.