You will have no sensation of a leash around your neck if you sit by the peg. It is only when you stray that you feel the restraining tug.

The enormous gap between what US leaders do in the world and what Americans think their leaders are doing is one of the great propaganda accomplishments.

You see there are people who believe the function of the police is to fight crime, and that's not true, the function of the police is social control and protection of property.

Every ruling class has wanted only this: all the rewards and none of the burdens. The operational code is: we have a lot; we can get more; we want it all.

The close relationship between politics and economics is neither neutral nor coincidental. Large governments evolve through history in order to protect large accumulations of property and wealth.

People who think they're free in this world just haven't come to the end of their leash yet.

Our fear that communism might someday take over most of the world blinds us to the fact that anti- communism already has.

The dirty truth is that the rich are the great cause of poverty.

Apathy's a problem but who cares?

When change threatens to rule, then the rules are changed.

Revolutions are not push button affairs; rather, they evolve only if there exists a reservoir of hope and grievance that can be galvanized into popular action.

If the condition of grief is nearly universal, its transactions are exquisitely personal.

The only way to get anunderstanding of the true wealthin your life is to acknowledge all thethings you have to be grateful for.

Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.

You don't need to know what you're escaping from to become a fugitive.

How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?

Education is not a product: mark, diploma, job, money-in that order; it is a process, a never-ending one.

I'm a big fan of period pieces, and I'm a big fan of the old-time westerns.

Air pollution is terrible for our children. Every single scientist, every single doctor will tell you the same thing: Air pollution damages our children’s brains, their hearts, and their lungs.

St. Louis is more humid. But after a while, the heat started taking a toll on us, so we started rotating a little more up front trying to stay fresh out here.

It's wonderful to play around with fantasy, because there are an amazing number of as-yet-unbroken rules out there.