All I want is that Americans still be able to read the alphabet in a hundred years. I am not very ambitious.

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.

Now, four years out of high school, I'm in an environment where people appreciate personality over appearance, and that makes me happy.

What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others.

It's not the money. It's not the fame. It's the influence.

I think we should all talk to our enemies and talk to our friends. Talk! That's the only way we'll find solutions.

There's nothing like Opening Day. There's nothing like the start of a new season. I started playing baseball when I was seven years old and quit playing when I was 40, so it's kind of in my blood.

The Grecian ladies counted their age from their marriage, not their birth.

The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.

A man is in the right in being a man; it is the woman who is in the wrong.

Once best friends now strangers with memories.

Covetousness bursts the sack and spills the grain.