I have been asked whether I wish to nominate a successor, an inheritor, a dauphin or delfino. I have decided to name Christopher Hitchens.

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.

Never criticize, complain or condemn. Never forget to appreciate with love what is good in a person.

The day you stop caring about opinions of other, is the first day of you freedom.

If I cannot trust someone's judgment, I cannot ask others to do so, and I would not place him at the head of my political operation.

It is a merchant's nature to quibble over coins. It is how we become rich and buy satin shirts. The problems of who governs this area is one for another day.

Modern culture is a mighty force. It is either subservient to the gospel or else it is the deadliest enemy of the gospel

Free love sounds great.

This strategy represents our policy for all time. Until it's changed.

It is possible that, post-Kyoto, the developed countries will recognise the requirements of the developing world.

I don't care if I die - look, I'm old - but you want your kids to have good times and a good life.

We are consciousness. We may not always be monkeys.