It's a pretty significant day for us. It is a day of abstinence when we fast, pray and smear ourselves read more

It's a pretty significant day for us. It is a day of abstinence when we fast, pray and smear ourselves with burnt ash to remind us of our sinfulness, forgiveness and mortality. It sets the tone for the penitential season leading up to Easter.

People say we have all got to join Europe for reasons which even the economists themselves aren't clear on-at the read more

People say we have all got to join Europe for reasons which even the economists themselves aren't clear on-at the same time we're saying, well yes of course Scotland has got to be independent. And why don't we make Wales independent too? And the north of England.

If you don't run your own life, somebody else will.

If you don't run your own life, somebody else will.

Overall we had a great team effort. It was good to get the win under tough conditions.

Overall we had a great team effort. It was good to get the win under tough conditions.

It's important to recognize that charter schools are public schools, and that it is better for your tax dollars to read more

It's important to recognize that charter schools are public schools, and that it is better for your tax dollars to be spent on innovative programs that equip children to succeed, rather than always sending money to schools regardless of whether or not they succeed.

It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For read more

It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For there is a reserve of latent power in the masses which, if it is called into play, the minority can seldom resist. But from the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason.

It's a surprise to me, and not because I'm not proud of the work, ... But I've been out here read more

It's a surprise to me, and not because I'm not proud of the work, ... But I've been out here 61/2 years, so it feels foreign. But then again, if it helps bring attention to the film, I think it's a special little film and I want people to get to know it.

There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, read more

There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too.

Donors must respond now if we are going to avert a humanitarian catastrophe.

Donors must respond now if we are going to avert a humanitarian catastrophe.