When something tragic happens in the world and I realize that, for the most part, I am powerless to stop it.
Truth is a habit of integrity, not a strategy of politics.
Every program that ever helped working people, from rural electrification to Medicare, was enacted by liberals over the opposition of conservatives. When people tell me they don't like liberals, I ask, "Do you like Social Security? If so, then shut up!"
Don't throw away your conscience.
One of the sharp parallels is that neither Vietnam nor Iraq was the slightest threat to America's national security.
I firmly believed throughout 1971 that the major hurdle to winning the presidency was winning the Democratic nomination. I believed that any reasonable Democrat would defeat President Nixon. I now think that no one could have defeated him in 1972.
I have a very deep concern about President Obama putting in another 21,000 troops into Afghanistan with the promise of more to come.
Your responsibility as a parent is never great as the case is with the mother.
It's through working with a lot of first-time directors that I realized that people learn on their feet. Everybody works on something for a different reason. Everybody has got something new to learn on these sets, and you don't have to know everything, the second you start.
What is clear is that the earth is mandating that the human community assume a responsibility never assigned to any previous generation. . . Our task at this critical moment is to awaken the energies needed to create the new world and to evoke a universal communion of all parts of life.
Any group or "collective", large or small, is only a number of individuals. A group can have no rights other than the rights of its individual members.