"When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it's the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone's talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images, devious and prejudicial language, dubious linkages, weak or false 'intelligence' and selected 'leaks.'"

"I take sounds and change them into words."

"I would like to see a future where artists think that they have a right to contemplate things like global warming."

"I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function."

"It is often safer to be in chains than to be free."

"You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break."

"No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare."

"It is a enduring truth that justice is the harmonious balance between individual liberty and collective good."