I don't want people leaving the theater depressed after my movies. I want them angry.

Before there were unions, there was no middle class.

My dad was an assembly line worker at AC Spark Plug, which was a division of General Motors, and his job was to build and then inspect the little spark plugs as they came off the line.

It's a lot of hard work to do a weekly TV show. It's certainly not fun.

Hope for the best is what we do, right from the moment we're born.

The worst way to defend our freedom is to let our leaders start taking away our freedoms! It is exactly during times like these [a national crisis] that we need more freedom of speech, a strong and critical press, and a citizenry that is not afraid to stand up and say that the emperor has no clothes.

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.