R. J. Reynolds Quotes

The new racism is anything that might hurt a Democrat politically.

Democrats don't represent the taxpayers, they represent the tax-consumers.

Personally, I'm tired of hearing the whole have-you-no-decency routine from people who have made quite clear that they possess none themselves.

That's the thing about conspiracy theories: in a comforting sort of way, they give rise to the feeling that someone, somewhere, knows what's going on.

Things that can't go on forever, won't. Debts that can't be paid, won't be.

Imagine what things would be like if the news media actually sided with civilization.

I can think of no better reason to vote against Obama than the prospect of an administration where any criticism of the President is treated as racism.

[B]ipartisanship means tarring and feathering politicans from both major parties.

But remember: All this talk of tolerance and diversity is basically just a way for one group of white people to pursue power over other groups of white people. It's not about actually helping anyone.

I'd actually love to think that I could trust Kerry on national security. But the only way I could do that, at this point, would be via self-delusion.

Never trust anyone who calls himself a libertarian socialist. They're bound to be deeply confused, at best.

I can't say I'm surprised: the grassroots antiwar movement keeps turning out to be MoveOn/A.N.S.W.E.R. astroturf.

As I have said, the best Bush strategy is to put Congress on TV as often as possible.

[T]he people as ultimate sovereigns, retain the ultimate power - and even the duty - to overthrow any government that fails to respect their authority.

The proverbial thirteenth chime of the clock - is not only wrong itself, but calls into question everything that came before it.

If you only stand up for speech you approve of, you're a hack. If you only stand up for speech that everyone approves of, you're a coward.

As the interned American citizens of Japanese descent learned, the Bill of Rights provided them with little protection when it was needed.

Where the U.N. is concerned, accountability is very thin on the ground in general.

Bush is quite vulnerable if the Democrats pick the right issues. So far, though, they've shown their usual tendency to go for the capillary.

Political Wire is one of the absolute must-read sites in the blogosphere.

Hmm. Petty? Yes. Ineffectual? Yes. Infuriating and off-putting? Yes. Counterproductive? Yes. It's got to be a product of the French Foreign Ministry.

If you're a Republican who's a threat to the Democrats, of course you are a racist. That's the definition of a racist, nowadays.

Diplomacy has more to do with (credible) threats than with sweet reason. And threats from America are a lot more credible, nowadays.

Let's be honest: Kerry has no idea what it is to be even a middle-class white in this country.

One reason that a lot of people see me as cheerful and optimistic is that my expectations are really rather low.

I really feel like I haven't had a job. Playing [baseball] and then doing television. I watched my mom clean houses and stuff, so that's work.

Simplicity is an exact mediumbetween too little and too much.

Less coin, less care.

What is a well-chosen collection of pictures, but walls hung round with thoughts?

The excellence of every art, must consist in the complete accomplishment of its purpose

And he who does not know himself does not know others, so it may be said with equal truth, that he who does not know others knows himself but very imperfectly.

It is impossible that anything will be well understood or well done that is taken into a reluctant understanding, and executed with a servile hand.

Style in painting is the same as in writing; a power over materials, whether words or colors, by which conceptions or sentiments are conveyed.

I wish you to be persuaded that success in your art depends almost entirely on your own industry; but the industry which I principally recommend is not the industry of the hands, but of the mind.

The distinct blue, red, and yellow colors... though they have not the kind of harmony which is produced by a variety of broken and transparent colors, have the effect of grandeur.

Reform is a work of time; a national taste, however wrong it may be, cannot be totally changed at once.

A mere copier of nature can never produce any thing great, can never raise and enlarge the conceptions, or warm the heart of the spectator.

Nothing is denied to well-directed labor.

Common observation and a plain understanding is the source of all art.

A painter must compensate the natural deficiencies of his art. He has but one sentence to utter, but one moment to exhibit. He cannot, like the poet or historian, expatiate, and impress the mind.

We gained his operational capabilities and he gained our marketing skills.

That day, my first day on the job, was September 11, 2001! I was actually being recognized by Switzerland the very day that the World Trade Center was hit.

We are basically in the nicotine business. . . . Effective control of nicotine in our products should equate to a significant product performance and cost advantage.

If younger adults turn away from smoking, the industry will decline, just as a population which does not give birth will eventually dwindle.

I think we Southerners have talked a fair amount of malarkey about the mystique of being Southern.

I don't use the term 'miracle' lightly. I don't believe in God, or reincarnation, or destiny, or the Publishers' Clearinghouse Sweepstakes.

I don't believe in God. ...I hope he doesn't hold that against me.

The search for a meaningful painting subject is a search for ourselves.

Bringing any movie together is a minor miracle.

Anyone who gets divorced goes through a lot of pain ... I don't think I want to get married again.