Congress is a Mafia running a protection racket.. .

If you don't kick things around with people, you are out of it. Nobody, I always say, can be anybody without somebody being around.

The laws of physics must provide a mechanism for the universe to come into being.

I would like to offer a candidate to be added to the venerable list of English collective nouns: a scum of politicians.

The most cost-effective move we could make in defense spending would be to shift the focus of CIA operations, giving this agency the directive to make trouble for the Soviet Union.

If we can't solve the problem, resolve the difference, then embrace the diversity, bring the silence, time will solve the problem and peace will prevail.

Love is a heart smile.

There should be a point to movies. Sure, you're giving people a diversion from the cold world for a bit, but at the same time, you pass on some facts and rules and maybe a little bit of wisdom.

A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue.

Commitment is an act, not a word.

I got quite good results from protein plates.

Bernstein has been disclosing musical secrets that have been well known for over 400 years.

I would like to run for the mayor of the city of Chicago. That has always been an aspiration of mine even when I was in the House of Representatives.

Until you appreciate something crucial - It is incredibly easy to manipulate us as to who counts as an Us, who as a Them.

If only my folks had beaten me, I could have gotten some material about my miserable childhood. But as it is, I've had a great life.