Democracy is an experimental system. I like it when states try out new ideas. I think we ought to expand, not contract, our federalist system.

If China and India were as rich as the United States is today, the market for cancer drugs would be eight times larger than it is now.

It seems to me that the price of eternal vigilance is liberty.

I think modern television shows, with their intricate plots, are stimulating our minds. This is one reason IQs have been going up.

The only way to thrive is to innovate. It's that simple.

A bet is a tax on bullshit; and it is a just tax, tribute paid by the bullshitters to those with genuine knowledge.

Conservatives have long argued, correctly, that 'fine-tuning' the economy is a chimera, but that argument seems to have disappeared from the conservative handbook.

What we tell students in formal schooling: “Sit down, stay quiet, and absorb. Do this for 12 to 16 years and all will be well.

Going to college is neither necessary nor sufficient to be well-educated.

As far as wages are concerned, the only difference between immigration and birth is that birth takes longer.

Well-roundedness comes not from sitting in a classroom but from experiencing the larger world.

In terms of the New Testament the Jews must suffer, therefore we will put it into practice if we will in charge and there will be no sympathy for the Jews when the blacks take over.

I am not a sports girl.

Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.

The time has come for us to envision ourselves as spiritual beings of light and love.

We're most likely to lose our rights when we allow ourselves to be persuaded to deprive others of theirs.

I have always believed that I need a circumference of silence. As to what happens to when I composer, I really haven't the faintest idea.

The whole exploitation thing is funny, too. Exploitation is the nature of the world, isn't it?

You have to know when to prod and when to be quiet, when to let things take their course.

Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn't love you.

Satin and lace and brown velvet and the faint odor of violets. That was all which was left to him of his love.