In civilizational issues you don't look at the tiny details as the debate. You have to look at the big picture!
I feel good when I'm engaged in what I think are the core issues of the society, and those core issues to me are what's happening to poor folks in this society.
I'm not involved in light, frivolous matters. I'm not involved in fringe or side issues. I'm involved in serious issues.
A genuine man goes to the roots. To be a radical is no more than that: to go to the roots.
Art can no longer be art today if it does not reach into the heart of our present culture and work transformatively within it that is, an art which cannot mould society — and through this naturally operate upon the core questions of our society — is not art.
I think I am a radical. I have never deviated from that. By radical, I mean someone trying to go to the root of things.
You go back to fundamentals when things start to go awry.
I wanted to see Democrats out there talking about our core set of issues. And let people around this country vote, let - people have caucuses, let them do it however they're going to do it.
There comes a time in every writer's life when it becomes necessary to recognize what people really care about.
I try to make work about things that matter.
At the core, we are dealing with two parties that have fundamentally different views of the world.
I didn't want to hear the usual answers about what's wrong because I believe these are symptoms: global warming, genocide, hunger, poverty, war, environmental crisis. If we can identify the root cause, we can change our ways.
Which questions guide our lives? Which questions do we make our own? Which questions deserve our undivided and full personal commitment? Finding the right questions is crucial to finding the answers.
There are always a half-dozen things that make 80%of the difference. Only SIX things!
My first job as premier will be to go back to basics.
Ignorance is my least favorite thing. I really think it's at the core of all our problems.
That's the reality of it. Everybody has a big two or three. The health of those big two or three ... there's a lot riding on it.
My path to victory is to talk about the issues that impact the lives of millions of Americans.
I really feel that we need to scale back and get to what is important on so many levels.
Philanthropy and social change work are at their best when they are driven by your values and connected to what you care about most.
There is something wrong with our world, something fundamentally and basically wrong.
Interviews don't go to the core of my life.
I confess . . . that I am not myself very much concerned with the question of influence, or with those publicists who have impressed their names upon the public by catching the morning tide and rowing very vast in the direction in which the current was flowing; but rather that there should always be a few writers preoccupied in penetrating to the core of the matter, in trying to arrive at the truth and to set it forth, without too much hope, without ambition to alter the immediate course of affairs, and without being downcast or defeated when nothing appears to ensue.
I think we just need to stick to our knitting on the topics and the subjects the American people care about.
There are some things I'd like to get into in terms of what's important to me.
