You can gerrymander one district, but it's very difficult to gerrymander the whole country.

The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.

Congressmen are not evil people, they're mostly sort of seismographs with antennae; they're waiting - they're more worried about losing their jobs than Assistant Deans of Men in the Ivy League.

I think constitutional and lawful protest has a very real value.

When President Nixon said that the American people don't want their foreign policy dictated from the street, unfortunately, he said the most clever political statement I think he's ever said.

The needs are too great, and there are too few of us. We have a duty, a responsibility to help others. It’s not all about fun. It’s not always easy.

Have you considered that some of your greatest heartaches and hardships might actually be the best things that ever happened to you in the long run?

As a younger player, you always kind of play with that fear of failure.

When you imitate the enemy's tactics, you take on his liabilities.

Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed.

Most guys my age are boring human beings. They sit in bars, get drunk, and then go home to tell their kids the way to rule their lives, while they're absolutely stewed out of their brains.

If we can't get more John Rovnaks in this world, let's all support the John Rovnak we've got.

And therefore only the enlightened sovereign and the worthy general who are able to use the most intelligent people as agents are certain to achieve great things.

Postmodernism is silly and joyless at the same time.

The odds will always favor the man with a plan