America needs fewer laws, not more prisons.

The first step in saving our liberty is to realize how much we have already lost, how we lost it, and how we will continue to lose it unless fundamental political changes occur.

As long as enough people can be frightened, then all people can be ruled. That is how it works in a democratic system and mass fear becomes the ticket to destroy rights across the board.

Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.

It is one of the great tragedies of the US, that most learn most of what they know about the government from the government.

The vision that the founding fathers had of rule of law and equality before the law and no one above the law, that is a very viable vision, but instead of that, we have quasi mob rule.

It has been surprising to me that so few conservatives have voiced concern over the precedence that are being set in favor of suppression by this so-called conservative administration.

How many McDonald's gift certificates would it take to sway a lot of Americans to pledge to never publicly criticize the U.S, President?

The sheer number of government employees and welfare recipients effectively transforms the purpose of government from maintaining order to confiscating as much as possible from vulnerable taxpayers.

This is a case if the President is permitted to be above the law, then we no longer have a republic.

The more people expect from government, the more biased they become against limiting government power.

The basic dream of many Colombians is to have a secure nation, without exclusions, with equity, and without hatred.

The people of England are never so happy as when you tell them they are ruined.

Getting to places like Bangkok or Singapore was a hell of a sweat. But when you got there it was the back of beyond. It was just a series of small tin sheds.

The common misconception is that as an actress you have to learn what you're doing. No, you just have to make the audience think you've learned it.

Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives.

When I read Andrew Motion's biography, I wept. It's something about the purity of the story and how fresh it was because of the love letters Keats wrote.

My true Self is free. I cannot be contained.

Every time you build a golf course, it’s not a golf course when you get there. You have to improvise.

I was glad to be with her, but it also kind of hurt, and it hurt when I wasn't with her, too.

You can say we're trying too hard or that we didn't try hard enough, but we're not trying at all; we're just doing what we do.