I think it's a terrible system, but money in politics is like water running downhill -- it finds its way.

If Franz Kafka were alive today he'd be writing about customer service.

It sometimes takes a while for executives to figure out that the reporters they think of as little bugs to be squashed or spun can be more powerful than they are.

The key to fixing education is better teaching, and the key to better teaching is figuring out who can teach and who can't.

The price of loyalty is incompetence.

Logic can convince but only emotion can motivate.

With his ABC News experience, perhaps Pierre Salinger's next job could be cohosting-with Oliver Stone-a 24-hour Conspiracy Network.

The only thing worse than a silly politician analyzing art is a silly artist analyzing politics

The basic problem is with the business model of journalism. That business model is premised on the idea that talk is cheap and reporting is expensive.

The only reason the House hasn't done even more damage is that the Senate often sands down the most noxious ideas, making the bills merely bad, not disastrous.

If it's easy for the government to learn about us, it should be easier for us to learn about the government.

if someone dies, people say that they loved him even if he was not good person so they start cunning to his family as if he will know it, why don't you keep your mandibles off?

I think I was raised in a solidly upper-middle class family who had really strong values and excess was not one of the things that my family put up with.

Snowden is the thoughtful, courageous saint of liberal reform. And Julian Assange is a sort of radical, feral prophet who has been prowling this wilderness since he was 16 years old.

All of them - my father, mother, step-mother, and grandmother - were all wonderful actors and performers and they are an inspiration to me, both in their craft and in their humanity.

Louis van Gaal has nothing more to learn.

The idea that language can be recombined to create new forms, new things, is of course very old in poetry.

So the point is, I don't have a right to tell anybody what's right or wrong about their lives. Who am I to tell you at any given moment of the day what would be right for you?

If you read the 'Daily Mail,' you would imagine that the British middle classes lead lives of unremitting misery.

I was interested in becoming a show dancer, for which I tried, but I'm not tall enough.

I can't believe the ignorance there, so I don't allow it to affect my life, I don't allow it to come into my zone, and it's not in my world, really.