Ask anyone on Social Security if their check comes on time every month. Like clockwork. And it comes through the so-called dilapidated U.S. mail. My dad's check literally will come on the same day every month. The government has been quite good and efficient at creating a number of systems.

I'm not a proselytizer. I was raised Catholic. I am a Catholic.

The idea that cinema can be dangerous is a great idea.

Greed has been with human beings forever. We have a number of things in our species that you would call 'the dark side,' and greed is one of them. If you don't put certain structures in place or restrictions on those parts of our being that come from that dark place, then it gets out of control.

Building up the arms did not cause the fall of Eastern Europe.

If we don't participate in it, it ceases to be a democracy. So Obama will rise or fall based not so much on what he does but on what we do to support him.

You can't regulate child labor. You can't regulate slavery. Some things are just wrong.