A politician, he knows that the majority cares little for ideals or integrity. What it craves is display.

The most violent element in society is ignorance.

People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.

Only when human sorrows are turned into a toy with glaring colors will baby people become interested - for a while at least. The people are a very fickle baby that must have new toys every day.

The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved.

To the moralist prostitution does not consist so much in the fact that the woman sells her body, but rather that she sells it out of wedlock.

I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.

If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.

If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus.

There's never been a good government.

A revolution without dancing is not a revolution worth having.

I’ve had pedicures before, and I’ve had milk shakes. Just never at the same time. And it’s glorious.

He called himself Jack, a plain handshake of a name, a far cry from the Clive Staples he had been christened, and to be Jack was the hard work of a lifetime.

Some of you with the way you running right now, the way you working, you will be extinct.

We are in a strange period of history in which a revolutionary has to be a patriot and a patriot has to be a revolutionary.

Let's start off with my father being a mailman.

The average Tea Partier is sincerely against government spending - with the exception of the money spent on them.

Poetry is a way of always paying attention to the world for me; a way of letting the world stick to me instead of being anxious or estranged, just being present in the world.

I don't like war. I particularly don't like the celebration of war, which I think the administration is a little bit guilty of.

I'm a competitor. I never doubt myself.

At the constitutional level where we work, 90 percent of any decision is emotional. The rational part of us supplies the reasons for supporting our predilections.