Thin skin is the only kind of skin human beings come with.

The forces of retribution are always listening. They never sleep.

There's nothing so dangerous for manipulators as people who choose to think for themselves.

Everybody's for democracy in principle. It's only in practice that the thing gives rise to stiff objections.

Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

In government and out, there are vast realms of the bureaucracy dedicated to seeking more information, in perpetuity if need be, in order to avoid taking action.

If you were starting from scratch to invent an instrument that could impose fiscal discipline, the last one on earth you would come up with is the United States government.

Everyone seems to be running against a liar, but nobody seems to be one. Odd - I mean, the math doesn't work out.

Washington, under Democrats and Republicans, has a profoundly neurotic attitude toward 'the people.' It is built on equal parts of suspicion, loathing, fear, respect and dependence.

In Washington it is an honor to be disgraced. you have to have been somebody to fall.

Talking too much too soon and with too much self-satisfaction has always seemed to me a sure way to court disaster.

Do me a favor? Be a gentleman tomorrow?

In fair weather prepare for foul.

Man is nature's sole mistake.

America enjoys the best health care in the world, but the best is no good if folks can't afford it, access it and doctor's can't provide it.

I have great faith in fools,— self-confidence my friends will call it.

Cool people still have a hard time showing what they got in Hollywood.

Green sods are all their monument; and yet it tells A nobler history than pillared piles, Or the eternal pyramids.

God is an exalted man. Some people are troubled over the statements of the Prophet Joseph Smith... that our Father in heaven at one time passed through a life and death and is an exalted man.

I always look at a girls shoes. And if they’re wearing heels, i wonder how she would look if she was just wearing those.

I have not seen a film as powerful, surreal, and frightening in at least a decade unprecedented in the history of cinema.