Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They're interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil.

Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.

There's a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.

The unfed mind devours itself.

We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing.

Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they're both just aspirin.

Write something, even if it's just a suicide note.

Persuading the people to vote against their own best interests has been the awesome genius of the American political elite from the beginning.

The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.

You know, I've been around the ruling class all my life, and I've been quite aware of their total contempt for the people of the country.

That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.

Leadership is relationship.

Today we take for granted that we are we. Yet the doubt about ourselves still exists, or has even grown.

I’ve always been under the assumption that death is a one-time, encompassing event.” “Why would you ever think that?

In order to know your enemy, you must become your enemy.

Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.

The Kindle is just the razor. The books are the blades - ka-ching!

as long as there is a lottery, we the people of the United States must believe in getting something for nothing.

I'm a married woman. I love my husband; I have a good life.

The art of motion pictures is pictorial and language comes a distant second.

I definitely use 'smiling while rapping' as a tool in the booth. I want to have fun while recording.