No decisions should ever be made without asking the question, is this for the common good?

Librarians in America do something like a couple of billion dollars worth of book business every year.

A newspaper is a public trust, and we will suffer as a society without them. It is not the Internet that has killed them. It is their own greed, it is their own stupidity, and it is capitalism that has taken our daily newspapers from us.

Most Americans, in their heart, are liberal and progressive. It's just a small minority of people who hate, they hate, they exist in the politics of hate, they don't believe two consenting adults should have the right to be in love and share their lives together and be legally protected by the state.

If there ever is a struggle, making a good movie will always supersede the need to be noble.

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

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.