In the corporate-owned media, men dressed like Ronald Reagan and women dressed like Rita Hayworth disseminate grotesque exaggerations and gossip in authoritative tones.

If you have to lie, cheat, steal, obstruct and bully to get your point across, it must not be a point capable of surviving on its own merits.

If only Coca-Cola had had the kind of message to accompany its addictive deliciousness that Fox News has, we'd all be speaking Cokelish today.

From the moment America went full-on industrial, it seems like it's been a steady path towards people never having to be physically present in order to satisfy their needs.

A nation is not a budget, no matter how much ideologues want it to be so.

Everything sells. Like integrity. Like democracy. Like truth. Like deeds.

A product is usually created to improve people's lives; otherwise, why buy it? I'm no genius, but I am an American, and gosh-darnit, I consume, so I know what I'm talking about.

Right-wing extremism is all about patience. That is, until it makes its move, and then it is sudden and explosive.

The spectacle of insensitivity that is the gun lobby and its outspoken, out-of-their-mind apparatchiks, is the apotheosis of what the Republican Party has allowed itself to become.

I've rarely gotten a good review in my life, yet, to paraphrase Noel Coward, I am happy to console myself with the bitter palliative of commercial success.

The right-wing just loves making a big entrance.

If your parents bring you no shame, be very grateful. If you're proud of them, celebrate.

I'm not a believer in luck, but I do believe you need it.

Take your eyes and your ears and your hands and your feet and your thoughts and your heart: Give them completely to Christ

I’m confident enough in my masculinity and sexuality that I can say that Ryan Gosling is just dreamy in this movie.

If I loved someone enough, I would go anywhere in the world with them." —Staggerlee

I never did any of things I was accused of. It was a total fabrication.

I want for India complete independence in the full English sense of that English term.

Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.

I don't like going away from my children.

I've always been a picky eater but I'm not the healthiest eater.