Steven Weber Quotes

A product is usually created to improve people’s lives; otherwise, why buy it? I’m no genius, but I am an American, and gosh-darnit, I consume, so I know what I’m talking about.

The element which is conveniently missing from today’s Republican Party is the human one. People’s hopes and realities become numbers and words, devoid of personality and easy to erase.

We fight wars from progressively great heights and distances, the blessings of technology steadily removing the personal human element from what was historically an extremely personal experience.

What’s hard, it seems, is living up to the expectations Democracy imposes upon those who would participate in society.

We have as a nation been duped by those who use our guilt about how we treated the innocent pawns in the Vietnam War game – the soldiers – into missing the point once again about the utter senselessness that is war.

I tend to be very relaxed on stage, but the nerves have to come out somehow.

The fact is, presidential politics has become a game of inches.

It’s easy to break things. Much, much easier, it seems, than building them.

Right-wing extremism is all about patience. That is, until it makes its move, and then it is sudden and explosive.

Anyone who thinks they stand apart from society and defies all which govern its existence has less in common with the lone wolf patriot standing up to dystopic forces of oppression – a myth – and more in common with the disease known as cancer – a harsh reality.

Everything sells. Like integrity. Like democracy. Like truth. Like deeds.

The spectacle of insensitivity that is the gun lobby and its outspoken, out-of-their-mind apparatchiks, is the apotheosis of what the Republican Party has allowed itself to become.