I'm not for real revolutions, because they always bring you the opposite of what you want. You very seldom get what you want if you have a violent revolution.

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 law or any practice that is not for the good of the people must be changed.

I look and I look...I must have come to the wrong planet.It's so strange here.

Chick Hearn was my favorite broadcaster ever - he's the one who taught me to think basketball, how to love basketball.

I've had to overcome a lot of diversity.

It is not more vacation we need — it is more vocation.

Some problems are just too complicated for rational, logical solutions. They admit of insights, not answers.

It makes no sense to talk of the social obligations of the corporation without reference to its economic obligations. The two are intertwined.

John Brennan has been the mastermind of the drone program. He's the one who'd convene the terror Tuesday meetings at the White House.

Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.

If there can be no love without hate, then I love to hate hate.