Everybody gets sick; everybody has had a problem with insurance or the prescription drugs they're supposed to be taking or an elderly parent who needs care.
All I ask is that you not be naive about how the government works when it decides to go after its prey.
I was one of the first 18-year-olds in the United States elected to public office right after 18-year-olds got the right to vote back in the early '70s. I ran for the Board of Education.
A newspaper is a public trust, and we will suffer as a society without them. It is not the Internet that has killed them. It is their own greed, it is their own stupidity, and it is capitalism that has taken our daily newspapers from us.
The American media wants to pump you full of fear.
Bush's presidency is revisionism-proof. We're going to be recovering from it for the rest of our lives.
Capitalism is an evil, and you cannot regulate evil. You have to eliminate it and replace it with something that is good for all people and that something is democracy.
Capitalism is an evil, and you cannot regulate evil.
Listen friends, you have to face the truth: You are never going to be rich... The system is rigged in favor of the few, and your name is not among them, not now and not ever.
I'd feel bad if I had you come into a theater and you leave feeling ripped off.
For my very first movie, 'Roger and Me,' I made it as part of my deal with Warner Brothers that the four people that were evicted in that film, that Warner Brothers would house - would pay their mortgage or their rent for the next two years to give them a chance to get on their feet.
Comedy is a great slayer of rogues in power.
You do not have the right to take another human's life, unless it's in strict self-defense.
If we didn't have Social Security, our seniors would live mostly in poverty. You'd have another 18 million people in poverty.
I've read stories of slave owners who were very generous. They didn't keep them in shackles, they didn't whip the slaves, they built schools and churches for them, free housing, free food, free everything. It's wrong. No matter how nice you make it look, it's wrong.
I have never owned a share of stock in my life, and the only time I've double dipped into anything is at the snack tray.
Army Specialist Bradley Manning deserves a medal, not prison.
Somehow, I don't think Jesus came to Earth to ring the bell at the New York Stock Exchange.
I have a rule: I want the pilot flying me up in the air at 30,000 feet to make more than a guy working at Taco Bell.
A majority of this country opposes this war, a majority of this country never voted for this administration.
