For the first time on Planet Earth (in 1964 America), a nation was made up of more college students than farmers. An unheard-of 42% of high school graduates sought higher education.

Almost alone among successful politicians, he took slights personally.

A candidate with no experience they would package as a citizen politician, a lifetime hack as an elder statesman.

Violent crimes had increased from 120 per 100, 000 in 1962 180 per 100, 000 by 1964.

Rebelling against the status quo was one of the definitions of conservatism.

(President) Lyndon Johnson still snapped between exultation and insecurity.

Goldwater had never even considered a non-Arizonan. Like a man on his deathbed, he wanted to be surrounded only by friends.

A confused and weak man hides his weakness and uncertainty with fiery speeches.

Goldwater hardly ever mentioned a statistic. He hardly ever used it EXAMPLE. He presumed you already knew what he meant. Reagan SHOWED you.

Goldwater's approach to any political problem invariably derived from the evidence of his own eyes.

Ronald Reagan was just as angry. But he made you want to stand right alongside him and shake your fist at the same things he was shaking his fist at.

One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.

The journey is about coming home....There is always the return. And the wound will take you there. It is a blood-trail." (p. 220, 222)

True happiness... arises in the first place from the enjoyment of one's self and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

The poet does not fear death, not because he believes in the fantasy of heroes, but because death constantly visits his thoughts and is thus an image of a serene dialogue.

My point is, I don't see the need to eat animals. I love animals; besides the horrible stuff that's put in meat, I actually love cuddling with animals and petting them and stuff.

Hollywood likes to imagine robots as mechanical copies of ourselves - which is a terrible idea.

Don't give away to others what you have not first given away at home.

Every kid wants to give their family a better life.

Pretend all you want, pretty girl. You and I know that deep down you’re secretly glad to be pressed up to my body.

Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.