A government run by billionaires for billionaires is an affront to freedom, morality, and humanity.

As far as what I do love, I love birds; I love lavender.

Democracy is not a spectator sport, it's a participatory event. If we don't participate in it, it ceases to be a democracy.

A lot of people on Capitol Hill don't want to talk to me.

I'm interested to see what happens with Fox News and phone hacking. I really can't believe it just happens in Great Britain. Because really, who cares about just hacking phones over there?

There's a gullible side to the American people. They can be easily misled. Religion is the best device used to mislead them.

I'm a millionaire, I'm a multi-millionaire, I'm filthy rich. You know why I'm a multi-millionaire? 'Cause multi-millions like what I do.

The Iraqis who have risen up against the occupation are not 'insurgents' or 'terrorists' or 'The Enemy.' They are the REVOLUTION, the Minutemen, and their numbers will grow - and they will win.

This book, 'Stupid White Men,' has sold now over four million copies worldwide. Probably about half of that may be in the U.S. and Canada, and the rest, overseas.

Any time you got the Pope and the Dixie Chicks against you, your time is up.

Back in the '80s and '90s, when GM was consistently posting giant profits, they were simultaneously firing tens of thousands of workers in my hometown of Flint and across Michigan.

Seldom do we embrace a new idea, especially one of a religious nature.

If you feel trapped quit thinking about the trap and start thinking about your value. Life favors value. Value is your way out.

When I pass the bar, you'll be barred from bars but put behind them.

We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.

The first band I identified with from Chicago was the Muddy Waters band.

A developed country isn’t a place where the poor have cars. It’s where the rich use public transportation.

Love is life believing in itself

[Writing] has helped me meet people.

Who looks upon a river in a meditative hour and is not reminded of the flux of all things?

He who would study nature in its wildness and variety, must plunge into the forest, must explore the glen, must stem the torrent, and dare the precipice.