I'm a product of an East Coast liberal arts educational system.

The world's most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.

In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.

Being a wiseass in a groupthink environment is like throwing an egg at a bulldozer.

Obviously the commercial news media tries to get you worked up and terrified so you'll buy products that they're advertising.

Within the cult of Wall Street that forged Mitt Romney, making money justifies any behavior, no matter how venal.

Mike Huckabee represents something that is either tremendously encouraging or deeply disturbing, depending on your point of view: a marriage of Christian fundamentalism with economic populism.

There is a reason it used to be a crime in the Confederate states to teach a slave to read: Literacy is power.

Why is JP Morgan getting so much heat? Maybe because it is a massive international crime syndicate.

Organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.

The failure to work out sensible budgets makes it impossible for government agencies to make long-term plans, and instead leaves them scrambling to spend money in the short term.

...when she wakes up, there is silence, as though the day has held its breath.

Above all, we must abolish hope in the heart of man. A calm despair, without angry convulsions, without reproaches to Heaven, is the essence of wisdom.

By finally enforcing our immigration laws, we will raise wages, help the unemployed, save billions and billions of dollars, and make our communities safer for everyone.

I'm for tax reform, not tax increases.

You have to be very careful when you let someone win.

Charity and treating begin at home.

If I wouldn't have found Courtney, I probably would have carried on with a bisexual lifestyle.

I might paraphrase Churchill and say: never have I received so much for so little.

When I choose material for an album all these songs I grew up with pour into my head.

Im gonna walk super, super slow to when I turn 40 or something. To me, walking and floating slow represents how wealthy you are!