'Zero Dark Thirty' is a disturbing, fantastically-made movie. It will make you hate torture.

I take much of the attacks and the criticism toward me as being very class-based, but as Americans we don't like to acknowledge that reality.

We're never gonna get rid of crazy people. They've been around for thousands of years - they'll continue to be around; they'll continue to do horrible things.

What the media are telling you to be afraid of are the wrong things. Fear is a necessary ingredient of our survival instincts.

I - honestly, I don't know of a worse lie one could tell other than a lie to take a country to war. To make up things to take people to war. That's just got to be the most obscene, immoral thing to do.

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.

L.A. - talk about a cruel city: Patients are forcibly removed from hospitals.