The financial interdependence of the world's banks is like the interlocking alliances that predated World War I.

Spontaneous combustion of grassroots politics is the future.

Anybody who thinks that getting a communication from a voter in your district is spam - that guy is pork. Roast pork unless he changes his point of view.

As Bob Dole found out, you can't keep a positive image while being your party's mouthpiece in Congress. That's why no legislative leader since James Madison has ever been elected president.

Democrats are not about to nominate anyone who backs the tax cut, and Americans are not going to elect anyone who favors a tax increase.

I didn't do what they said I did. I may have done enough so that I don't know if I can prove my innocence.

More and more, the Democrats are not merely inconsistent, wrong and/or misguided - they are the worst of all possible things you can be in Washington: irrelevant.

Take whatever position you want, but do take a position, because once you do, ample money awaits you on either side.

Washington is a mean town where human sacrifice has been raised to an art form.

The Darwinian adaptive trait of our time is the ability to figure out when we are being lied to on television.

Spin is overrated. It is strategy, not spin, that wins elections.

I just love the smell of an old book store and the feel of the crisp pages along my fingertips.

I don't want to die, obviously, but really, the wonder of life is amplified by the fact that it ends.

Life is a quest and love a quarrel

A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.

I tend to head for what's amusing because a lot of things aren't happy. But usually you can find a funny side to practically anything.

Most people who work in prison earn money through contraband.

Well, the white race in America is the same way. As individuals it is impossible for them to escape the collective crime committed against the Negroes in this country, collectively.

I feel I've made the transition from model to actress, but I'm not that secure about it. Lauren Hutton, Jennifer O'Neill - we all know that a few films don't mean all that much.

I came from a communist country where there are no luxury cars.

Ask anyone who has been in a love relationship for a while: nothing is perfect.