In order to become the master the politician poses as the servant.

Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.

How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?

Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.

The graveyards are full of indispensable men.

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

He who laughs last didn't get the joke.

Without trust, there can be no genuine peace. Neither in politics, nor in the quiet individuality of the heart and spirit.

at night i loved her at night i waited under the tarp at night i watched her looking up at the stars dreaming of a better time to watch me

Freedom is not a self-preserving gift. It has to be earned, and it has to be protected.

Without freedom, there is no creation.

My real fans know who I truly am and they know what I represent and what I mean.

Scion of chiefs and monarchs, where art thou? Fond hope of many nations, art thou dead? Could not the grave forget thee, and lay low Some less majestic, less beloved head?

Singing in Yiddish was a great thrill for me and came about through Joe Papp, the founder of The Public Theater.

Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead, doubtless two of the most exquisitely adolescent of fictions.

Yeah, well, we're all writers, aren't we? He's a writer that hasn't been published, and I'm a writer who hasn't written anything.

And that's the bottom line, cuz Stone Cold said so!