For however much the state may gain by not having to fund roads on its own, society would lose in aggregate if the open commons of transportation were lost.

I think if the copyright regime focuses on the people we are supposed to be helping, the artists and creators, and builds a system that gives them the freedom to choose and to protect and to be rewarded for their creativity, then we will have the right focus.

Under the principle of equality, we should get as close to respecting equal votes of every citizen as we can, given our constitutional structure. And I think if we did that, then the will of the people would not be overturned.

All of the great Disney works took works that were in the public domain and remixed them.

[Conservatives] go to church, they do lots of things for free for each other. They hold potluck dinners. ... They serve food to poor people. They share, they give, they give away for free. It's the very same people leading Wall Street firms who, on Sundays, show up and share.

We always build on the past; the past always tries to stop us.

Some may not like the Constitution's requirements, but that doesn't make the Constitution a pirate's charter.