You can't expect the institution to learn, if it doesn't accept any sense of justice.

Whether or not he came to believe it - so many people, when they have a mission, come to believe something in a way that may have started out as a slogan. You know, L. Ron Hubbard, not to make a random comparison, started Scientology as a scam.

The sex abuse crisis in the Catholic Church is the result of what police call "noble cause corruption," the belief that because you are dedicated to doing good, you can do no wrong.

In the case of the Catholic Church, it's hard to understand how they so willfully sacrifice the children.

It's easy to get armchair analysts to talk, but to get people on the inside to talk is very, very hard.

What's great about the Sundance Film Festival is the festival takes over that town as it's intended to do. But, it's very focused on a lot of other filmmakers and distributors so it almost feels like, while they're a lot of so-called civilians there, it's an opportunity that you have to see, to show your stuff to the other folks, your peers really, and to get that reaction.

Fundamental problem in American democracy is that we are allowing congressmen and senators to be bought and sold like sneakers.