If you want to rise in politics in the United States, there is one subject you must stay away from, and that is politics.

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.

People may say it is better to face problems in life but I say run if you believe you can run faster.

Everything is about them, not the dying boys and girls in the arena.

Those who do not industrialize become hewers of wood and hawkers of water

We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces.

The old Atlantean sciences from the tribe of enlightenment, of which there are only a few remnants and chards left in this world, were medicine, law, computers, and the performing arts.

God has enabled me to affect the life of the country since 1920 without the necessity of office.

Drinking coffee for instant relaxation? That's like drinking alcohol for instant motor skills.

There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.

Gratitude opens your heart, and opening your heart is a wonderful and easy way for God to slip in.

If you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out. Nothing can come out of you that is not in you. If when you are pressured, anger comes out, it is not the fault of the person who pressured.