He's a full-fledged housewife from Kansas with all the prejudices.

Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.

There's a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.

The unfed mind devours itself.

We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing.

Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they're both just aspirin.

Write something, even if it's just a suicide note.

Persuading the people to vote against their own best interests has been the awesome genius of the American political elite from the beginning.

The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.

You know, I've been around the ruling class all my life, and I've been quite aware of their total contempt for the people of the country.

That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.

Originality of mind untainted, And enthusiasm for life, unlimited.

It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.

I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known.

We never completely escape the teachers of our childhood nor any of the patterns that formed us.

If you put the right things out there the right things will happen.

In the long run, however much damage we come through, Obama's vision is the one that's going to be left standing. It's a question of how much pain and suffering America has to endure in the meantime.

All I care to know about a man is that he is a human being... he can't be any worse.

I've been having a midlife crisis since I was four years old.

I think that is why I do so many different things with the hair, the grills, the crazy shoes.It's just my personality coming out there.