Some people are so busy learning the tricks of the trade that they never learn the trade.

I can't do the same movies all my life. I'm conscious of that. But it's a trade-off. 'Dear John' allowed me to do movies I've wanted to do. You learn to balance it out. I'm still learning. Only now am I getting to do the kinds of movies that I have wanted to do. So it's a steady climb. You don't jump into a Soderbergh film.

The trouble with the Labour Party leadership and the trade union leadership they're quite willing to applaud millions on the streets of the Philippines or in Eastern Europe without understanding the need to also produce millions of people on the streets of Britain.

Each co-operative institution will become a school of business in which each member will acquire a knowledge of the laws of trade and commerce.

It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.

Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying.

Someone once said that history has more imagination than all the scenario writers in the Pentagon and we have a lot of scenario writers here. No one ever wrote a scenario for commercial airliners crashing into the World Trade Center.

Here at home when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon we squandered an obvious opportunity to make service a noble cause again and rekindle an American spirit of community.

Things aren't right. If a burglar breaks into your home and you shoot him he can sue you. For what restraint of trade?

The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.