QUOTES
I'm a liberal.
I'm confused when that became a bad word..."
We're
not politicians. We're not able to make decisions. We're not able to do anything
except bring attention to something, and that's the thing we can do
“I
thought it was a good time to have those debates again about government using
fear to erode away civil liberties, which happens every 30 to 40 years”
“The
script for this film was written 52 years ago by Edward R. Murrow, who taught
us many valuable lessons about responsibility and always, always questioned authority,
because without it authority often goes unchecked.”
“The
only failure is not to try.”
The
government itself is running exactly like the Sopranos and they sit back and they
make deals. And they say okay, 'I'm going do this: France, you're getting the
pipelines.'
We
moved away from what we were going after which was the al-Qaeda and there's no
connection between al-Qaeda and Iraq, which we know, we spent a lot of time trying
to prove it and it didn't happen. And we're going to go into a war and we're going
to kill a lot of innocent people.
I'm
an old-time liberal and I don't apologise for it. With Syriana we're going to
get beaten up politically in some places. Fair enough, because we've taken a stand.
It is not an attack on the Bush administration but it is an attack on the system
that has been in place for 60 or 70 years.. oil always being at the centre of
it.
It is rather
astonishing that the United States does not play ball with the ICC, considering
our country was the beacon of the idea of an international criminal court.
I
was taught to look at the United States not from the inside out but from the outside
in. The signs you see are very disheartening. It is probably the worst time ever
for us internationally. When you go to Europe, for the most part, they just hate
us. Not individually, but they think we are just like these big bullies—and quite
honestly, we have acted like that. That has been the most unusual twist in the
last few years, having to defend being an American.
I
just worry that we have lost our balls for reporting. We constantly underestimate
the intelligence and interest in the audience. The U.S. press took such a pass
on the Bush administration that they are as responsible for us marching into Iraq
as the administration. There is no question about it. They were afraid to be marked
as unpatriotic.
"If
we turn our heads and look away and hope that it will disappear then they will-all
of them, an entire generation of people. And we will only have history left to
judge us."
