Nixon was a Southern Rim President, and so antipathetic to the old guard.

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.

You don't talk much, do you, angel-face? I like that in a woman.

It is substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule, indeed, extends with more or less force to every species of free government.

Sometimes you have to forgive the process, knowing that the outcome is for the best.

People who fail, excel at avoiding opportunity.

Pursuit of knowledge under difficulties.

Pluripotent cells have the ability to grow into any cell in the body.

Animals are neither gods nor fiends, but men in their way without the lust and greed of man.

The dirty secret of art is you don't have to show people your bad writing. That's what we have the delete key for.

There are many, many different kinds of movies and directors and styles. I don't mind that a movie looks like a movie.

Whoever is the first to cry "Stop the thief" is the one who is guilty.