Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.

It is then by those shadows of the hoary Past and their fantastic silhouettes on the external screen of every religion and philosophy that we can by checking them as we go along and comparing them trace out finally the body that produced them.

A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck.

The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice.

Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity for if man's power is increased the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.

Power ought to serve as a check to power.

When people ask me about my story I just go through the positive stuff: the tent-pole moments the big landmark checkpoints.

I think the rules are going to have to change for me to ever run for public office. My checkered past will always keep me out of politics.

I think these movies are as much for people of that time as for people who weren't born. For people who weren't born they see how leaders must act under a crisis situation not trying to be re-elected or not trying to check polls that they go from their gut check.

People feel the worst film I made was 'Jack.' But to this day when I get checks from old movies I've made 'Jack' is one of the biggest ones. No one knows that. If people hate the movie they hate the movie. I just wanted to work with Robin Williams.