My family helped start [this country], we've been in political life ... since the 1690s, and I have a very possessive sense about this country.

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.

I eye the three of them, considering. They’ll need a lesson in discretion before I go. Not a lethal lesson. Mom wouldn’t like that.

I'd watch her, amazed at just how much a person could accomplish fueled by tea and regret.

Many Christians suffer from loneliness because they are sitting instead of serving.

John Kerry spent the day reading to preschoolers ... and the kids said Kerry actually lacked warmth and failed to articulate a clear message.

I will stay in prison till the moss grows on my eye lids rather than disobey God.

And, consequently, the art of propaganda or public information becomes one of the most powerful forms of directive statesmanship.

Xena and Gabrielle were a couple...in the end, it was if not explicitly said, it was implicit that...yeah, they totally were.

Now look! That damned cowboy is president of the United States!

How can you save the world you have not seen if you can't save the community you have seen?

If I'm judging the attachment, myself, or another person, then I create separation.