We're not a democracy. It's a terrible misunderstandin g and a slander to the idea of democracy to call us that. In reality, we're a plutocracy: a government by the wealthy.

The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.

A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you.

The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy.

Islam is the only religion that gives dignity to the poor.

People who don't cherish their elderly have forgotten whence they came and whither they go.

There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.

This country of ours has committed the most serious act of aggression in its history by engaging in a war of aggression without a declaration of war by Congress.

Who will protect the public when the police violate the law?

The great and constant need of those who investigate homicide and practice forensic pathology or criminal law is a warm humanism.

Violence is the ultimate human degradation.

You'll get younger not from what you read but from what you apply in your life. (192)

If you cant beat 'em cooperate 'em to death!

Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations of misery.

The imagination is a pretty precious source of protection.

In December people give no thought to the Past or the Future. They thing only of the Present.

The only thing that can combat fear is action. And there's two actions. There's fight and flight.

The preaching of Jesus Christ and him crucified on account of sinners is Gods desired way of being God.

In garden arrangement, as in all other kinds of decorative work, one has not only to acquire a knowledge of what to do, but also to gain some wisdom in perceiving what it is well to let alone.

There were never that many women stand-up comics in the past because the power to make people laugh is also a power that gets people upset.

I simply find that as a songwriter, my goal is to try to move people. And I feel that before I can move other people, I have to genuinely be able to move myself.