[Bill] Clinton was a pretty good president for a Republican.
A government run by billionaires for billionaires is an affront to freedom, morality, and humanity.
I realized that this was the big secret of democracy — that change can occur by starting off with just a few people doing something.
Capitalism means that a few people will do very well, and the rest will serve the few.
I respect the fact that people have worked hard all week and want to go to the movies on the weekend and be entertained.
We live in the time where we have fictitious election results that elects a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons.
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.
Republicans are relentless and they’re smart, too – they’re not all dumb – and on Election Day, they’ll be up at five in the morning.
We have to see that we’re a part of each other, and we have to take care of each other. The reason why they have universal health care in Canada and Britain, these other places? Because they believe if one suffers, everybody suffers.
My employees, there’s no deductible in your health care. No deductible, absolutely not. You get paid sick days, as many as you need, personal days.
The American public believes that health care is a right and not a commodity.
When I’m shooting a movie, I’m always in an invisible theater seat. I respect the fact that people have worked hard all week and want to go to the movies on the weekend and be entertained.
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.
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.
All I ask is that you not be naive about how the government works when it decides to go after its prey.
Healthcare should be between the doctor and the patient. And if the doctor says something needs to be done, the government should guarantee it gets paid for.
People like me who grew up in a working-class town, who don’t have a college education, you don’t usually hear from us.
We should be licensing everybody with a gun. I have to have a license for my dog. I have to have a license for my car. If you’re going to do my hair later you have to have a license… We don’t require a license to own a firearm?
I drive an American car. It’s a Chrysler. That’s not an endorsement. It’s more like a cry for pity.
You need to have a relationship with what you put inside you. I don’t want to get all spiritual about this, but I believe our bodies are a gift, and to deface it is disrespectful.
I think the NRA, they got it half-right when they say, ‘Guns don’t kill people, people kill people.’ I change it to, ‘Guns don’t kill people, Americans kill people.’
Capitalism is against the things that we say we believe in – democracy, freedom of choice, fairness. It’s not about any of those things now. It’s about protecting the wealthy and legalizing greed.
My dad was an assembly line worker at AC Spark Plug, which was a division of General Motors, and his job was to build and then inspect the little spark plugs as they came off the line.