In politics one may remain aloof and become irrelevant or get involved and get corrupted.

Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life-rafts.

An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.

We do not need presidents who are bigger than the country, but rather ones who speak for it and support it.

As long as the differences and diversities of mankind exist, democracy must allow for compromise, for accommodation, and for the recognition of differences.

This is, I say, the time for all good men not to go to the aid of their party, but to come to the aid of their country.

Vote against anything introduced with a "re" in it, especially reforms, reorganizations, and recodifications. This usually means going back to something that failed once and is likely to do so again.

We don't declare war any more; we declare national defense.

It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.

Whatever is morally necessary must be made politically possible.

The only thing that saves us from bureaucracy is its inefficiency.

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

It is through the filter of our ego that we give meaning to everything we see, touch, hear, taste and feel.

If you become full-blown consciousness, everything that can be known will be known to you.

It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks.

Fashion is so over the top.

In the U.S. alone, weather disasters caused $50 billion in economic damages in 2010.

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

Words were all he knew; they possessed and overwhelmed him, as if they were a thousand white cats with whom he shared a one-room apartment.

I am selfish, private and easily bored. Will this be a problem?

As for disappointing them I should not so much mind; but I can't abide to disappoint myself.