One of the most fascinating aspects of politician-watching is trying to determine to what extent any politician believes what he says.

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'm tired of making people sad and I'm tired of disappointing them and I'm tired of seeing them break. I have seen this too many times. He will be the last.

The greatest advantage of being First Lady is the opportunity it presents to truly make a difference on issues of great importance.

We've been talking about this for a good while, the immorality of drones, dropping bombs on innocent people. It's been over 200 children so far. These are war crimes.

Zen professes itself to be the spirit of Buddhism, but in fact it is the spirit of all religions and philosophies.

It seems to me that life is always undoing for us something that we have just laboriously done.

My mother was an immigrant from Lebanon to the United States. She came when she was 18 years old in 1920.

My wife will buy anything marked down. Last year she bought an escalator.

A society in which there are high levels of voluntary activity will simply be a better, happier place than one where there are not.

BJP is not going to the people only to form a government. We have come to the people to give stability and a development oriented government.

I'm always learning. I can't imagine doing anything else.