Government is like a vast ocean and politics is the six-inch layer on top.

We're not going to fix government until we fix citizenship.

Are we just going to be a crowd of voices, or are we going to be a crowd of hands?

Government is supposed to be about how we do things together, and we can do that much more together if we use technology smartly right now.

Our ability to do great things with data will make a real difference in every aspect of our lives.

We say that word [bureaucracy] with such contempt. But it's that contempt that keeps this thing that we own and we pay for as something that's working against us.

Now, a lot of people have given up on government. And if youre one of those people, I would ask that you reconsider, because things are changing. Politics is not changing; government is changing.

When one neighbor helps another, we strengthen our communities.

When there are more males in the industry to begin with, it just has a more male feel, and that pushes the girls away.

If you dont tolerate any risk, you can never innovate.

We have to make bureaucracy sexy.

ANDREW: But do you think there’s a line? You know, where you discourage the next Charlie Parker from becoming Charlie Parker?FLETCHER: No. Because the next Charlie Parker would never be discouraged.

He felt Anna's hand slip into his and he grasped it hard. It was reassuring, soft, comforting. Everything he needed in that moment.

The only job a parent has is work themselves out of a job.

I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.

But it seems there is more than one way to poison a person's heart, and it doesn't require a meal.

In Sicily, women are more dangerous than shotguns.

In the glare of your mind, be modest. And beholden to what is tactile, and thrilling.

The Oscar nomination is the best marketing you can get.

Compassion is the ultimate expression of your highest self

The excess of the voluptuary, like the austerities of the recluse, triumphs in the suffrage of perverted reason.