Keeping a guy in prison costs 50,000 bucks a year. Executing one costs a couple million.
Benghazi happened a long time ago.
And it's important to remember we are all responsible - or certainly the elected members in Washington of both parties are responsible for making decisions and choices to ensure that the economy grows and jobs are created.
But the - look, I think that this - the United States of America is still the most powerful economy in the world. It is an incredible engine for creativity and innovation. And it has the most - smartest, most effective workforce in the world. So we have a lot going for us, in spite of the fractiousness of our politics.
The president assured the chancellor that the United States is not monitoring and will not monitor the communications of the chancellor.
The debate we won't be having is whether or not the debt ceiling should be raised. We will not have a situation where people will hold the American economy hostage in order to achieve a specific agenda - at least not until 2013. So we think that is incredibly important as a matter of economic good.
What we see happening with this Republican strategy is a willingness to threaten the very foundation of the world's greatest economic power. That is a very risky proposition.
Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.
If you don't have anything useful to say then you attack people. If you feel that your house of cards has been discovered and is starting to come unraveled, you become very desperate. Intelligent people tend to talk about the facts. They don't sit around and call each other names. That's what you can find on a third grade playground.
Sometimes people get really sniffy about the films you choose if you've done more dramatic projects or you're classically trained.
As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government.