Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

Morality is doing what is right, no matter what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, no matter what is right.

Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.

Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.

Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

I don't want to be the person who gasps in fear whenever she hears the sound of a doorbell or a phone. I just want to lose myself in these hills, in the river winding west to the city of bridges.

When I felt strongly I would say it strongly.

Democratic Socialism devolves into totalitarian Socialism and eventually into full on Communism as people resist statism.

When I was preparing for this speech I asked my family for advice. One member replied "There's a first time for everything so try to be funny and brief."

I'm 33...before AC/DC I've played in a lot of bands in Australia. You're never too old to rock and roll.

Drugs are marvelous--it's life that's evil. And sometimes the only way to face it is to get completely twisted.

Dead news like dead love has no phoenix in its ashes.

Richard Strauss--Old Home Week in Gomorrah

If it was up to the studio, everything would be shot with a camcorder.

Leadership is like exercise. Do it everyday, the results take time but you will see them. It's the little things.