Civics is not only how to run the country before it's your turn to run the country; it is, in fact, the study of power, practical political power. And you must start that process at an age level when kids' brains are still open and malleable.

My worst fear is that I'll end up living in some run-down duplex on Wilshire wearing pants hiked up to my nipples and muttering under my breath.

I believe that a nation that allows music to be expendable is in danger of becoming expendable itself.

Let's give some substance to patriotism. It may take a generation.

I really think that living is the process of going from complete certainty to complete ignorance.

When you Google me, you'll find a lot of people don't like Richard Dreyfuss. Because I'm cocky and I present a cocky attitude. But no one has ever disagreed with the notion I represent, that we need more civic education. So far there's 100 percent support for that.

Wake up and live. It's a fast world out there.