Obviously the commercial news media tries to get you worked up and terrified so you'll buy products that they're advertising.

The world's most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.

In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.

Being a wiseass in a groupthink environment is like throwing an egg at a bulldozer.

I'm a product of an East Coast liberal arts educational system.

Within the cult of Wall Street that forged Mitt Romney, making money justifies any behavior, no matter how venal.

Mike Huckabee represents something that is either tremendously encouraging or deeply disturbing, depending on your point of view: a marriage of Christian fundamentalism with economic populism.

There is a reason it used to be a crime in the Confederate states to teach a slave to read: Literacy is power.

Why is JP Morgan getting so much heat? Maybe because it is a massive international crime syndicate.

Organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.

The failure to work out sensible budgets makes it impossible for government agencies to make long-term plans, and instead leaves them scrambling to spend money in the short term.

If the rock band U2 had been born in Orange County, California, would they have become just another church worship band?

Education is a great treasure.

I'm a control freak. If you're going to slap my name on something, I would like to control it.

Work on psychological blocks like shame and guilt - they falsely color your reality.

Sometimes, niña, our greatest gifts grow from what we are not given.

Careful, luv. I might be angry with you, but that doesn't mean I don't still want you. So if you do that again, I'll shag you right here, right now, and sod anyone who wants to watch

Eating is the secret to good cooking.

A fast to be true must be accompanied by a readiness to receive pure thoughts and determination to resist all Satan's temptations.

Also, I've already won all the awards.

An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences.