Every four years the naive half who vote are encouraged to believe that if we can elect a really nice man or woman President everything will be all right. But it won't be.

Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.

There's a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.

The unfed mind devours itself.

We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing.

Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they're both just aspirin.

Write something, even if it's just a suicide note.

Persuading the people to vote against their own best interests has been the awesome genius of the American political elite from the beginning.

The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.

You know, I've been around the ruling class all my life, and I've been quite aware of their total contempt for the people of the country.

That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.

The gut is the seat of all feeling.

Pale death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Romanticism is the expression of man's urge to rise above reason and common sense just as rationalism is the expression of his urge to rise above theology and emotion.

Always follow your dreams, don't let anyone tell you that you can't be something.

What is it all but a trouble of ants in the gleam of a million million of suns?

I never liked being called the 'most decorated' soldier. There were so many guys who should have gotten medals and never did-- guys who were killed.

I had differences of opinion with President Obama and most well-known, of course, is Iran.

Books that are books are all that you want, and there are but a half dozen in any thousand.

A flapping tongue has killed more men than sudden storms ever did.

A second chance doesn't mean anything if you haven't learned from your first mistake.