We should stop going around babbling about how we're the greatest democracy on earth, when we're not even a democracy. We are a sort of militarised republic.

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.

Why are you walking alonewhen love is walking along?

Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.

I have never seen faces, but because I have looked people in the eye, only their gazes.

I know I come off like a very outgoing person, and yeah, I'm outgoing, but there's also a part of me that still likes to be in my little shell sometimes.

If I have known much trouble in my youth, I have also known much joy.

If Unix could present the same face, the same capabilities, on machines of many different types, it could serve as a common software environment for all of them.

The essential thing is to WANT to sing. This then is a song. I am singing.

Stick to your values in all circumstances.

The flow from knowledge to action draws upon the complete person with his or her catalyst and synergistic potential.

Chief executives that are successful make good chief executives.