The most persistent threat to freedom, to the rights of Americans, is fear.

Labor never quits. We never give up the fight - no matter how tough the odds, no matter how long it takes.

Anybody who has doubts about the ingenuity or the resourcefulness of a plumber never got a bill from one.

Every piece of progressive social legislation passed by Congress in the 20th century bears a union label.

We heard from the abortionists and we heard from the people who looked like Jacks, acted like Jills and had the odors of Johns.

Economics was the only profession where a person could be considered an expert without having once been right.

It is impossible to bargain collectively with the government.

The one profession where you can gain great eminence without ever being right.

But it's important to acknowledge that while we may make mistakes, in the long run, we may also learn from them.

Before you leave here, Sir, you’re going to learn that one of the most brutal things in the world is your average nineteen-year-old American boy.

I love America, " he'd tell us. We were going to make a million dollars manufacturing objects we had seen in dreams that night.

I cannot conceive of music that expresses absolutely nothing.

Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.

When you're working with a smaller budget I suppose one of the things that has to be in your mind when you are writing is that you have to keep the characters down to a minimum.

He did ten years in Attica, reading Nietzsche and Wilhelm Reich.

I've made hundreds of legendary records that people talk about that didn't sell.

The intensity with which young people live demands that they "blank out" as often as possible.

Everything is deeply intertwingled.