In U.S. politics, 'compassion' means giving money and privileges to well organized interest groups at everyone else's expense.

For reporting a scientific finding, I was called a 'conspiracy theorist.' Only in America is scientific analysis seen as conspiracy theory and government lies as truth.

A true patriot does not confuse government with country. A patriot's loyalty is to his country, and loyalty to country requires holding government accountable.

Washington's Corruption and Mendacity Is What Makes America 'Exceptional'

No one outside America any longer believes the US media or the US government... You can't believe a word the American media says. If they say anything correct, it's just an accident.

Terrorists can endanger some of us, but the war on terror endangers us all. How much more can the Constitution be diminished before it is completely replaced by arbitrary government power?

A country that goes out of its way to imprison the innocent has no business preaching democracy to the world.

When the world looks at America, what it sees is an Israeli colony.

A country whose population has been trained to accept the government's word and to shun those who question it is a country without liberty in its future.

Tariffs protect ill-considered government policies, such as costly regulations and high taxes on labor and capital that make our goods uncompetitive in international markets.

As the growing emphasis on feelings crowds out reason, facts will play a smaller role in public discourse.

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

I suppose every innovation started out as a fantasy.

Heaven has no clocks or calendars, and time will be no more [Revelation 10:6].

The stories she'd read of others' lives over these last few months had left her with a greater appreciation for the thread of her own life.

I don't like to go over curbs, because I don't want to be hard on the car.

I probably tweet every other day, which I know isn't half as much as some people.

I'm trying to earn a living in the way that is most enjoyable to me. I love the world of literature, and I hope to support myself in it.

The fact of the matter is that everybody treats me pretty much as one of the boys, which I take as a great compliment

The genius of our country is improvisation, and jazz reflects that. It's our great contribution to the arts.

I believed it would succeed. It was Polish Solidarity and its victory that put an end to the old era when what mattered were borders and rival blocs.