If the watchdog doesn't bark, how do you know there's a burglar in the basement? And the press is supposed to be a watchdog.

Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life.

Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.

Freedom begins the moment you realize someone else has been writing your story and it's time you took the pen from his hand and started writing it yourself.

As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I've thought everyone is a teacher.

Charity provides crumbs from the table; justice offers a place at the table.

America's corporate and political elites now form a regime of their own and they're privatizing democracy. All the benefits - the tax cuts, policies and rewards flow in one direction: up.

Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.

In marriage, everyday you love,and everyday you forgive.It is an ongoing sacrament, love and forgiveness

I'll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one

Democracy doesn't begin at the top; it begins at the bottom, when flesh-and-blood human beings fight to rekindle what Arlo Guthrie calls 'The Patriot's Dream.

To escape from the world means that one's mind is not concerned with the opinions of the world.

Integrity never goes out of style.

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

Then I decided to draw from and on my own imagination, and everything came out perfect.

RIDICULE, n. Words designed to show that the person of whom they are uttered is devoid of the dignity of character distinguishing him who utters them.

People who say, 'Let the chips fall where they may,' usually figure they will not be hit by a chip.

Guilty as hell. Free as a bird. America is a great country.

Surrounded by the self -sufficiency of American culture, we can convince ourselves that we have what it takes to achieve something great.

I will demand a commitment to excellence and to victory, and that is what life is all about.

Sub-optimization is when everyone is for himself. Optimization is when everyone is working to help the company.