There are only those you can live with, and those you can work to change.
We cannot reform the world. . . . Uncle Sugar is as dangerous a role for us to play as Uncle Shylock.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
No matter how big the lie; repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as the truth.
This is not a time to keep the facts from the people-to keep them complacent. To sound the alarm is not to panic but to seek action from an aroused public. For, as the poet Dante once said: 'The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in a time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.
One person can make a difference, and everyone should try.
Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.
I remember working with Jackie Chan on Shanghai Noon [2000], and when we were working on the script, I thought that my character thought about being an outlaw the way a kid today would think about being a rock star, as a way to impress girls. So it was just kind of a funny idea, but once we had that idea, it changed the character and made it something that was funnier to me to play.
When I listen to candidates spend all their time attacking Barack Obama, I'm glad they're not driving this bus because they'd be looking through the rear-view mirror. I look through the windshield at the road ahead.
In moments of crisis, the initiative passes to those who are best prepared.
I love coming to work. I never have a bad day.