There are necessary evils. Money is an important thing in terms of representing freedom in our world. And now I have a daughter to think about. It's really the first time I've thought about the future and what it could be.

You start getting hit with some very interesting situations in life - you as a parent - when they approach that teenage area, which is frightening because you still have memories of that age and the things you were doing at that age... Please don't do what I did.

I was the guy who had been bouncing around the film industry for years, and I'd been lucky if five or 10 people would see my movies, so Captain Jack did a big flip for my career.

Prior to 'Pirates of the Caribbean' - the first one in 2003 - I had been essentially known within the confines of Hollywood as box office poison, you know what I'm saying? You know, I basically had built a career on 20 years of failures.

We're not perfect, but we do have democracy.

By the time of the United States Tricentennial, there will be more government workers than there are workers.

It is hard to imagine an area in which Congress has more express constitutional authority to act than in protecting the right of minorities to vote.

In addition to their power over government based on government financing and personal influence, bankers could steer governments in ways they wished them to go by other pressures.