An unregulated derivatives market essentially gives Wall Street a way to place hidden taxes on everything in the world.

The world's most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.

In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.

Being a wiseass in a groupthink environment is like throwing an egg at a bulldozer.

Obviously the commercial news media tries to get you worked up and terrified so you'll buy products that they're advertising.

I'm a product of an East Coast liberal arts educational system.

Within the cult of Wall Street that forged Mitt Romney, making money justifies any behavior, no matter how venal.

Mike Huckabee represents something that is either tremendously encouraging or deeply disturbing, depending on your point of view: a marriage of Christian fundamentalism with economic populism.

There is a reason it used to be a crime in the Confederate states to teach a slave to read: Literacy is power.

Why is JP Morgan getting so much heat? Maybe because it is a massive international crime syndicate.

Organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.

There is one right thing for the student to do, that is, to develop the habit of weighing worths, of sensing the relative values of the facts that he meets.

Opportunities rarely give second chances.

Sometimes things seem good at first . . . but we learn the hard way that they weren't as good as we thought.

I think we are wise, we English speakers, to savor accents. They teach us things about our own tongue.

Christians should read and meditate the upon the Word of God which sustains and directs their spiritual lives.

When an author is yet living we estimate his powers by his worst performance and when he is dead we rate them by his best.

The artist is a collector. Not a hoarder, mind you, there's a difference: Hoarders collect indiscriminately, artists collect selectively. They only collect things that they really love.

I've been surfing once in my entire life and I wasn't terrible at it, but my love for music is like the Hamilton family loves water. I understand it - but I'll stick to music.

Every obedience is not easy. This is for Jesus Christ. He deserves everything!

That is very high praise, which is given you by faithful witness.