I'm committed to universal health coverage and education.

The question is will we continue to fight what may be a rearguard action to defend universal literacy as a central goal of our education system or are we bold enough to see what's actually happening to our culture?

I'm no politician. I'm an historian who has learned through a lifetime of studying that nothing in the world beats universal education.

Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.

Universal education is not only a moral imperative but an economic necessity to pave the way toward making many more nations self-sufficient and self-sustaining.

The truth is in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.

I was very inspired by Les Blank's film 'Burden of Dreams.' I think what's unique about his film and the two I've made is that they're close examinations of filmmakers and how their own emotional experiences reflect in the material they're rendering and vice versa - how that material sometimes colors their own lives.

What's interesting is for myself when I become really attracted to somebody I find them in my dreams... conversations nothing more.

The very fact that we are having a national conversation about what we should eat that we are struggling with the question about what the best diet is is symptomatic of how far we have strayed from the natural conditions that gave rise to our species from the simple act of eating real whole fresh food.

The New Testament evinces its universal design in its very style which alone distinguishes it from all the literary productions of earlier and later times.