The guys who won World War II and that whole generation have disappeared, and now we have a bunch of teenage twits.

When I was growing up, I wasn't an extrovert. If anything, I was an introverted kid and a very average pupil at school. I was very quiet.

The stronger the participation of the female characters, the better the movie. They knew that in the old days, when women stars were equally as important as men.

The U.S. military was segregated 'til the Korean War, and the blacks in World War Two were totally segregated.

The premise of Russian foreign policy to the West is that the rule of law is one big joke; the practice of Russian foreign policy is to find prominent people in the West who agree.

America is way too quick to trade freedom for the illusion of security. Whether it's allowing the NSA to go way too far in what it intercepts of our personal data, to our government monitoring of everything domestically and spending way more than we should.

Any number of scoundrels, having money enough to start with, can establish themselves as a 'government'; because, with money, they can hire soldiers, and with soldiers extort more money; and also compel general obedience to their will.

A prime minister's job is to make sure the government works for those who have elected him, and not for big corporations.