North Korea has taught a great lesson to all the countries in the world, especially the rogue countries of dictatorships or whatever: if you don't want to be invaded by America, get some nuclear weapons.

There is nowhere in the four Gospels where Jesus uses the word 'homosexual.'

The idea that cinema can be dangerous is a great idea.

Most liberals I know were for invading Afghanistan right after 9/11.

I'm from the Midwest, and guys like me don't go on diets. We don't do well on spinning classes.

I do believe that we are to love our enemies and do good to those who persecute you. I believe that there is power and strength in that.

It should be a crime to make a profit off somebody being sick.

How could a guy sitting in a cave in Afghanistan, have... plotted so perfectly the hijacking of four planes and then guaranteed that three of them would end up precisely on their targets?

I mean if politics was my main motivation I would be doing politics. But I'm a filmmaker.

I don't talk in sound bites.

My dad was an autoworker, my mom was a clerk. Until I was thirty-five, I never made more than fifteen thousand dollars a year.

When the women's liberation movement began, when people began protesting against the Vietnam War, civil rights movement, at the beginning of those movements, the majority of the country was not with them, did not believe in the basic principles of any of those philosophies.

When you come from the working class and you do well enough whereby you can provide a little bit better for your family, get a decent roof over their head and send them to a good school, that's considered a good thing.

It's a lot of hard work to do a weekly TV show. It's certainly not fun.

What really went wrong is that General Motors has had this philosophy from the beginning that what's good for General Motors is good for the country. So, their attitude was, 'We'll build it and you buy it. We'll tell you what to buy. You just buy it.'

When I make a film, I'm not doing it purely for political reasons. If I just wanted to do that, I'd run for office.

Republicans stalled Merrick Garland's nomination to the Supreme Court because they could, and 136 years of American history recommended it as politically advantageous.

Both parties act in their political self-interest. Indeed, that's the purpose of a political party. But unlike Democrats, at least Republicans are honest about it.

A materialist age makes neurotics of those who measure their life in minutes. Teetotalling totalitarians know the cost of life, but not the value.

No one is better at deprecating President Trump than President Trump - just ask him.

Any legitimate system of criminal justice must first concern itself with justice. If just punishments also deter, rehabilitate, or protect, all the better.

Republicans have always tolerated greater intellectual diversity than Democrats.

President Trump's critics call him an immoral lout. By strict moral standards, so are we all.

Politics presents few win-win situations for partisans on either side.