I just decided to make a movie. I had no training, no film school, but I had been to a lot of movies.

If we didn't have Social Security, our seniors would live mostly in poverty. You'd have another 18 million people in poverty.

Halliburton is not a 'company' doing business in Iraq. It is a war profiteer, bilking millions from the pockets of average Americans. In past wars they would have been arrested – or worse.

The media love to cover black people on the front page. After all, when you live in a society that will lock up about 30 percent of all black men at some time in their lives and send more of them to prison than to college, chances are a fair number of those black faces will end up in the newspaper.

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.

Every parent wants to do what's best for their child. Whatever I can afford, I'm going to get my kid the best education I can get.