We are the people are parents warned us against.

Some flag waving is good, a lot of flag waving is tolerable, incessant flag waving is crazy and dangerous and easily manipulated by the war party to get people bubbling at the mouth in fear and rage.

Taken as a whole the mass media seldom rises to the level of deplorable trash, but it is also true that there is no mass audience in America for anything better.

Tens of billions ... are going into the pockets of tens of thousands of tax preparers who ... love complexity as much as the rest of us hate it

Americans will quarrel over how, who, or what to rescue or save, but the idea that the nation ought to be off doing it is challenged only by a few.

Foreign aid has been perfected so that it subsidizes corporate U.S. agriculture while preventing poor countries from developing profitable agriculture or feeding themselves.

But if not Kelso, then something else, because a free people must own the nation they live in.

The blame for the maddening complications of the federal tax system goes to the people with the most money

To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.

Pure hearts will be Christlike. It is God’s desire that we be conformed to the image of His Son.

The greatest excuse you must have is the excuse to do your best to the very best and in a distinctive manner

I don't feel that as an artist my job is to offer PR propaganda, whether for the good or for the bad.

The only thing we know about the future is that it will be faster changing and more unpredictable than the present.

Child labor, not a problem. Censorship, not a problem. Torture, not a problem. Chewing gum in China - oh, my God! You better not be over here chewing gum.

They may have had time to destroy them, and I don't know the answer.

To be getting an education means this: to be learning what is your own, and what is not your own.

I always enjoy being the obvious homunculus of the pair.

I think it's my motivation and my dedication to prove everyone wrong whenever they tell me I can't do something.