It appears the Kochs are among the most defensive billionaires, preferring the comfy confines of their callous and intellectually dishonest world view.

Our goal isn't to close Wal-Mart down. It is to make it a better, more humane company toward its employees and the communities it is in.

What I always try to do is make the political personal.

People may be surprised at how hard and difficult filmmaking can be, having the creativity and the technical aspects together is very hard to do.

Economic research demonstrates that tax dollars spent in early childhood development provide extraordinary return on investment-16% for high quality programs

The Occupy movement has drawn attention to how too many in the 1 percent get to play by their own rules while exploiting the 99 percent.

Corporate conglomerates run without regulation do not work in the service of society, and run reckless and unchecked whenever possible.

We know that BP cuts safety corners, takes risks, and is unconcerned about anything other than their own profit.

Ideology has consequences.

It makes no sense to spend $6 billion a month to go after 100 Al Qaeda in Afghanistan.

Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time - beautiful?

As long as there is insistence of the truth, one cannot know the Vitarag Lord [the enlightened one].

It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.

My dad seemed comfortable with his decision to be a 'have-not, ' but I knew that I wasn't.

Deterrence itself is not a preeminent value; the primary values are safety and morality.

This Reese's Chevrolet was downright awesome.

I didn't have a grip on that ball. I shouldn't have thrown it.

Never fear to bring the sublimest motive to the smallest duty, and the most infinite comfort to the smallest trouble.

To throw awayan honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away.

The true value of sport is more than the skills that young people learn.