If we are the greatest nation the sun ever shone upon, it would seem to be mainly because we have been able to goad our wage-earners to this pitch of frenzy.

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

It is foolish to be convinced without evidence, but it is equally foolish to refuse to be convinced by real evidence.

You don't have to be satisfied with America as you find it. You can change it. I didn't like the way I found America some sixty years ago, and I've been trying to change it ever since.

Fascism is capitalism plus murder.

One of the necessary accompaniments of capitalism in a democracy is political corruption.

I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.

The private control of credit is the modern form of slavery.

I don't know whether anyone will care to examine my heart, but if they do, they will find two words there- 'social justice.' For that is what I have believed in and fought for.

You can't make somebody understand something if their salary depends upon them not understanding it.

All truly great art is optimistic. The individual artist is happy in his creative work. The fact that practically all great art is tragic does not in any way change the above thesis.

I now need to take a very aggressive approach to having a baby.

Never. Till my last breath I will work. To retire there is only one place-the cremation ground.

There are many more traits that the climate deniers share with the creationists and Holocaust deniers and others who distort the truth.

A garden scheme should have a backbone - a central idea beautifully phrased.

Touch me again, and I’ll end you… in a non-criminal way.

It is not so bad being ignorant if you are totally ignorant; the hard thing is knowing in some detail the reality of ignorance.

It gave me a second chance. I'd like everybody to have a second chance if they need it, so I'm trying to let people know how important it is to become an organ donor.

Often we don't have a good notion of what our talents are, because we have never had a chance to try them out.

Success is like anything worthwhile. It has a price. You have to pay the price to get to the point where success is possible.

Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination.