I must say I'm surprised by how skeptical of the [Barack] Obama administration The Nation has been.

I'm not a movie guy. I don't know all this stuff that comes with celebrity. I don't know who the actors will be and stuff like that. But anybody who wants to talk about the issues - that's great.

The consent of the governed is not consent if it is not informed.

And that's not something I'm willing to support, it's not something I'm willing to build and it's not something I'm willing to live under.

When we look at how, constitutionally, only Congress can declare war, and that is routinely ignored. Not NATO or the UN, but Congress has to authorize these endless wars, and it isn't.

The government would assert that individuals who are aware of serious wrongdoing in the intelligence community should bring their concerns to the people most responsible for that wrongdoing, and rely on those people to correct the problems that those people themselves authorized.

Presidents should not be exempted from the same standards of reason and evidence and justification that any other citizen or civil movement should be held to.