On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.

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 have no words — alas! — to tellThe loveliness of loving well!

Some people won't have kids, but I’m not going to have parents. I’m burning their birth certificates and defacing their gravestones tonight.

Who can have compassion on the ignorant is a victim of regrets, a supporter of ignorance and a builder of stupidity.

Reagan won because he ran against Jimmy Carter. Had he run unopposed he would have lost.

People are constantly clamoring for the joy of life. As for me, I find the joy of life in the hard and cruel battle of life - to learn something is a joy to me.

Hell itself must yield to industry.

Grease is the only cure for a hangover.

Shakespeare is the true multicultural author. He exists in all languages. He is put on the stage everywhere. Everyone feels that they are represented by him on the stage.

To be rhymed to death as is said to be done in Ireland.

Every brave man is a man of his word; to such base vices he cannot stoop, and shuns more than death the shame of lying.