A talent for drama is not a talent for writing but is an ability to articulate human relationships.

Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.

There's a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.

The unfed mind devours itself.

We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing.

Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they're both just aspirin.

Write something, even if it's just a suicide note.

Persuading the people to vote against their own best interests has been the awesome genius of the American political elite from the beginning.

The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.

You know, I've been around the ruling class all my life, and I've been quite aware of their total contempt for the people of the country.

That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.

When we will learn to use the power of love to win the war, universal peace and happiness will be there.

It is not only that Germany has been defeated in the war, Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany was defeated.

I think everything I do is based on my experience in the world in one way or another.

Leaving people to jumped conclusions is sometimes simpler than explaining a complicated truth

People who run for president seriously and people who become president enter a bizarre secret society in which they have had an experience that none of us will ever have.

Christian hope does not promise successful days to the rich and the strong, but resurrection and life to those who must exist in the shadows of death. Success is no name of God. Righteousness is.

There are no degrees in honorableness. You either are or you aren't.

I'm starting to think about my life, thinking about where I'm going to be in three years time: who I'm going to be with, where I'm going to be situated myself.

I don't do the same show on any two nights.

Sometimes people ask, 'Are hockey fights real?' I say, 'If they weren't, I'd get in more of them.