Achievers must not be penalized or parasites rewarded if we aspire to a healthy, productive, and ethical society.

The American citizen must be made aware that today a relatively small group of people is proclaiming its purposes to be the will of the People. That elitist approach to government must be repudiated.

The advantage of the cauliflower is that if all else fails, you can always cover it with melted cheese and eat it.

I continue to believe that the American people have a love-hate relationship with inflation. They hate inflation but love everything that causes it.

Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote.

If you would not confront your neighbor and demand his money at the point of a gun to solve every new problem that may appear in your life, you should not allow the government to do it for you.

Infinitely more important than sharing one's material wealth is sharing the wealth of ourselves-our time and energy, our passion and commitment, and, above all, our love.

If you really want to help the poor, help the rich. They're the ones who will invest, build more factories, create more jobs.

Freedom is strangely ephemeral. It is something like breathing; one only becomes acutely aware of its importance when one is choking.

Productivity and the growth of productivity must be the first economic consideration at all times, not the last. That is the source of technological innovation, jobs, and wealth.

The nation ought to have a tax system which looks like someone designed it on purpose.

How art thou out of breath when thou hast breathTo say to me that thou art out of breath?

If a man is proud of you in public, he will always be proud of you.

I am dying: it's a beautiful word. Like the long slow sigh of a cello: dying. But the sound of it is the only beautiful thing about it.

A sense of the universe, a sense of the all, the nostalgia which seizes us when confronted by nature, beauty, music - these seem to be an expectation and awareness of a Great Presence.

It reflects a prevailing myth that production technology is no more amenable to human judgment or social interests than the laws of thermodynamics, atomic structure or biological inheritance.

We are organizers at heart. Most of us in the movement take great pride in being able to put things together.

Anger is my biggest enemy in life.

While in a crowded underground carriage, scream 'It's happening again!

Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.

There were moments when I really just thought, I don't need anything and I don't need anyone. I just want to go away and disappear.