• The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.

• Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.

• The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.

• Of ex-President Eisenhower at the Republican convention of 1964 Reading a speech with his usual sense of discovery.

• Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.

• Teaching has ruined more American novelists than drink.

• Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.

• Never have children, only grandchildren.

• Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.

• Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say and not giving a damn.

• I'm a born-again atheist.

• It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

• A good deed never goes unpunished.

• There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.