Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate.

Shortly, the public will be unable to reason or think for themselves. They'll only be able to parrot the information they've been given on the previous night's news.

People, governments and economies of all nations must serve the needs of multinational banks and corporations.

Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen.

Today it is infinitely easier to kill one million people than to control one million people.

The key point to bear in mind is that Russia cannot be in Europe without Ukraine also being in Europe, whereas Ukraine can be in Europe without Russia being in Europe.

The scope of America's global hegemony is admittedly great, but its depth is shallow, limited by both domestic and external restraints.

The mistakes of the Iraq war are not only tactical and strategic, but historical. It is essentially a war of colonialism, attempted in the post-colonial age.

According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahadeen began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan, 24 Dec 1979.

One has to understand what the enemy is all about: the enemy's history, the enemy's culture, the enemy's aspirations. If you understand these well, you can perhaps move towards peace.

It is conceivable that at some point a truly united and powerful European Union could become a global political rival to the United States.

Of course, I’ve told Jesus to suck it, too, which earned me a certain measure of notoriety, because you have to make fun of any religion that would let you have sixteen kids and say it’s God’s will.

Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark.

I will vanish in the morning light

The blue collar milieu was something that I really understood and resonated with me and I thought was underrepresented in American cinema.

Ah woe is me, through all my daysWisdom and wealth I both have got,And fame and name and great men's praise;But Love, ah! Love I have it not.

Social class means a hell of a lot and upper class people - no matter how well [Franklin ] Roosevelt did - it was stylish to hate him.

A resolute and wise refusal to take part in festivities will be an incentive for introspection and self-purification.

My father liked to moralize, and so do I. But he was in earnest, while I am embarrassed and pretend that I am merely being witty.

Strictly speaking, every citizen above a certain level of income is guilty of some offense.