I wouldn't mind paying taxes - if I knew they were going to a friendly country.
Civil rights are more important today than they ever have been in our country. There is so much divisiveness today.
I think that between the egos of the actors and the wrestlers in this country we are taking away from the truly dedicated and informed people who should be getting their voice heard.
More humane societies are usually smaller, like the Scandinavian countries and Holland, where it is much easier to reach consensus and cooperation.
It is difficult to violently suppress people in the long run, as the example of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries has shown.
We live in a country where John Lennon takes eight bullets, Yoko Ono is walking right beside him and not one hits her. Explain that to me!
More often than not, we think of ourselves as black, white, Asian, or Hispanic pretty much in this country, but the real America is much more than that.
Writers, especially those of us with roots in other countries, are rarely left to ourselves. We are asked to declare our allegiances, or they are determined for us.
I don't want to live in a militarised country behind an iron curtain. It's boring. Been there and seen the movie. I've done that.
I'm still heard on 1,500 radio stations across North America every day, about 220 million people a day in 150 countries.
We have this kind of revolving door, we don't have a permanent class of millionaires in America like a lot of other countries.
American businesses and upper incomes pay a larger portion of the federal taxes of our national taxes than any country in the world.
Since the conception of our country, America has held that parents, not schools, teachers, and certainly not courts, hold the primary responsibility of educating their children.
Contrary to what you might think, China's economy is relatively less efficient, and more polluting, than those of rich countries.
There's no country in the world that's more devastated from natural resources than Afghanistan.
Those who devote their lives to serving our country, children, and neighborhoods are giving back. They have answered the call to serve.
Concentrating wealth in the hands of the few and deregulating financial institutions and practices lead to speculative bubbles that eventually burst - and that brings the whole country down.
Do we want in this nation to lose the backbone of manufacturing in this country? Do we want to be a nation that doesn't want to manufacture anything?
The wealth of the country, its capital, its credit, must be saved from the predatory poor as well as the predatory rich, but above all from the predatory politician.
No other country on earth could have provided such tremendous opportunities and we should never take the privilege of our citizenship for granted.
I don't consider myself qualified to do a movie about international intrigue - I seldom leave the country.
