You may use different sorts of sentences and illustrations before different sorts of audiences, but you don't -- if you are wise -- talk down to any audience.

The Socialist Party will no longer be running a candidate for president. The Democratic Party is leading this country to Socialism much faster than we could ever hope to.

If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag, wash it.

The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Dissent... is a right essential to any concept of the dignity and freedom of the individual; it is essential to the search for truth in a world wherein no authority is infallible.

The difference between Democrats and Republicans is: Democrats have accepted some ideas of Socialism cheerfully, while Republicans have accepted them reluctantly

The doctrine of thrift for the poor is dumb and cruel, like advising them to try and lift themselves by their bootstraps.

The very existence of armaments and great armies psychologically accustoms us to accept the philosophy of militarism. They inevitably increase fear and hate in the world.

I am not the champion of lost causes, but the champion of causes not yet won.

Kennedy said that if we had nuclear war we'd kill 300 million people in the first hour. McNamara, who is a good businessman and likes to save, says it would be only 200 million.

Peace will never be entirely secure until men everywhere have learned to conquer poverty without sacrificing liberty or security.

More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that is why we have the United Nations.

I've been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of.

Build a company you would never sell.

My ideal weight is moobless.

Obviously geek culture is super influential, the web kind of started from a very geeky point of view because geeks are all about technology.

Anytime there's an actual grassroots movement that isn't funded by people trying to create a grassroots movement, I find that interesting.

Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.

In my younger days, I was trying to write sophisticated prose and fantastic stories.

Wind is to us what money is to life on shore.

If you do not create your destiny, you will have your fate inflicted upon you.