The crucial role communists played in organizing industrial unions in the 1930s and struggling for social reforms, peace, and civil rights strengthened rather then undermined democratic forces.

The enormous gap between what US leaders do in the world and what Americans think their leaders are doing is one of the great propaganda accomplishments.

You see there are people who believe the function of the police is to fight crime, and that's not true, the function of the police is social control and protection of property.

You will have no sensation of a leash around your neck if you sit by the peg. It is only when you stray that you feel the restraining tug.

Every ruling class has wanted only this: all the rewards and none of the burdens. The operational code is: we have a lot; we can get more; we want it all.

The close relationship between politics and economics is neither neutral nor coincidental. Large governments evolve through history in order to protect large accumulations of property and wealth.

People who think they're free in this world just haven't come to the end of their leash yet.

Our fear that communism might someday take over most of the world blinds us to the fact that anti- communism already has.

The dirty truth is that the rich are the great cause of poverty.

Apathy's a problem but who cares?

When change threatens to rule, then the rules are changed.

We are musical notes emanating from the quantum string section of a grand symphonic orchestra.

Fear of losing is what makes competitors so great. Show me a gracious loser and I'll show you a permanent loser.

Ladies who were no better than they should be, whose dresses were too tight, too bright and too all the things Magnus liked most, lounged on velvet-covered benches along the walls.

Sometimes I like to go outside without even checking the weather first.

When we use this word fun, it sort of bangs up the ordinary and the extraordinary altogether.

I must try to hide my emotions. I have to live with both the victory and the defeat.

All of the directors I've worked with I have loved and would work with again. I have no favorites.

The genius of the Republicans has been how they figured out how to so polarize the middle class that we vote against our own best interests.

In a soulmate we find not company but a completed solitude.

There is an all-out assault now on the Christian community in this country.