There is no limit to the hunger politicians have for the money you've worked so hard for. ... You can tell them to take a hike, but then the guns come out.

The key to accepting responsibility for your life is to accept the fact that your choices, every one of them, are leading you inexorably to either success or failure, however you define those terms.

A lot of people out there pay good lip service to the idea of personal freedom... right up to the point that someone tries to do something that they don't personally approve of.

What sort of a brain-dead idiot does it take to actually believe that gun laws will prevent criminals from obtaining and carrying guns?

One of the most crucial but hardest things to do as part of turning your life around is to get rid of all the negative people around you and replace them with people who encourage you instead.

There are people in Congress who aren't very bright. In fact, some of them are just plain brain-dead.

Screaming racism is the last refuge of leftist intellectuals who've completely lost their mojo.

No wonder politicians love government schools. Where do you think the dumb masses come from that can be so easily led and manipulated?

Free speech is meant to protect unpopular speech. Popular speech, by definition, needs no protection.

The principal purpose of the Democratic Party is to use the force of government to take property away from the people who earn it and give it to people who do not.

If I'm tapping anything, it's the frustration of people who have something to say at work or home or in some social setting and just can't do it. I do it for them. I don't take prisoners.

You do not get peace in this world until you are broken into pieces.

I would love four children because I have a very small family, so I want those big Thanksgiving dinners.

I was in one bar band from 1965 to '69, then I was in another one from 1970 to '79 - a 9-year bar band!

The judgment that you pass today will only hinder a person in their spiritual evolution. All you do is say to the person, psychically: "This is what you are. You're fixed. You can't change."

To understand bad taste one must have very good taste.

One extends one's limits only by exceeding them.

I don't like bands who would play music like Code. I mean I hate most bands with emotional singing parts (I adore metal singing like Iron Maiden though!)

The one thing that men and women have in common - they both like the company of men.

I think, to go to the bottom of it all, that the films I have made and my kind of film-making is a hybrid type of film-making - in that it isn't American, it isn't Italian.