The United States is unique among the rich countries, developed countries, in not having some kind of a national health-care system.

Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think about changing society. When you trap people in a system of debt, they can't afford the time to think.

The general population doesn't know what's happening, and it doesn't even know that it doesn't know.

That's the standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don't work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital.

Jingoism, racism, fear, religious fundamentalism: these are the ways of appealing to people if you're trying to organize a mass base of support for policies that are really intended to crush them.

There's a good reason why nobody studies history, it just teaches you too much.

The world is a very puzzling place. If you're not willing to be puzzled, you just become a replica of someone else's mind.

Democratic societies can't force people. Therefore they have to control what they think.

Nobody should have any illusions. The United States has essentially a one-party system and the ruling party is the business party.

If you want to control a population... give them a God to worship.

A language is not just words. It's a culture, a tradition, a unification of a community, a whole history that creates what a community is. It's all embodied in a language.

My God had not spoken to me again. But neither had He forsaken me. I knew that. For damned sure, I knew that.

Guns are like cars: you can trust a good used one better than one that's brand new.

The Judgement is not a question, it's a sure answer, as to a clump of dough, that will yeast and rise, or go in the oven and burn to crust.

Leadership is about we, not me.

Eating a slice of white bread is like eating pure sugar.

Form 1040 was chosen by the IRS because for every $50 you earn, you get 10 and they get 40.

I got this bad allergy - I'm allergic to bullshit.

We have to find the back door to peoples' hearts because the front door is heavily guarded.

Ethical and questions of philosophy interest me a great deal.

Beauty is like an almanack: if it lasts a year it is well.