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.

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

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.

O wild dark flower of woman Deep rose of my desire An Eastern wizard made you Of earth and stars and fire.

Scientists have theorized that when Earth comes to its final days, the only life left on the planet would be in the form of microbes.

I lose my temper, but it's all over in a minute," said the student. "So is the hydrogen bomb," I replied. "But think of the damage it produces!

You can't fuel real economic growth with indiscriminate credit. You can only fuel it with well-allocated, long-term investment.

One thing about me is I try to be honest.

Life will not be a pyramid with the apex sustained by the bottom, but an oceanic circle whose centre will be the individual.

If nobody quotes you, you haven't said a thing worth saying.

Simon Cowell seems like a very nice guy, but I think hes a secondhand Mickie Most to be honest.

In my district, the budget scales back and eliminates several long-term shore protection projects important to the safety and economic security of Long Island.

Look, when I got in trouble in school I got in trouble at home. Now when kids get in trouble at school, the teacher gets in trouble. So the families are important.