The powers that be not only try to control events, but they try to control our memory and understanding of these events, which is part of controlling the events themselves.

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.

It takes an earthquake to alter the course of a river. What does it take to change the course of life?

According to his habit, Theodore Roosevelt sought to harness anxiety through action.

I can muster up the courage in the difficult situations to get me through.

A gender-equal society would be one where the word 'gender' does not exist: where everyone can be themselves.

What's wrong with transforming food?

This is a nation that loves our freedom, loves our country.

I am not trying to give an image of a fairytale, perfect, everything else, I am just being myself.

I've been reading an Alabama newspaper that one man shot another man because he beat him in a Bible-quoting competition.

I continue to have a special pride and passion for AOL, and I strongly believe that AOL - once the leading Internet company in the world - can return to its past greatness

Sometimes when there is action, we just tend to avoid those moments with music, and have music in a separate part that allows you to dream and to make your mind up on where you're at in the story.