If any of you are secret poets, the best way to break into print is to run for the presidency.

There are two ways that you can gain territory from another group. One is by conquest. That's essentially the way we took California from Mexico and... Texas as well. But what's going on now may end up being a kind of recolonization of the Southwest, because the other way you can regain territory is by population infiltration and demographic dominance.... The United States will be faced with the problem that Canada has been faced with... and which our system is not prepared to accommodate.

If you're in the penaut business you learn to think small.

The Senate is the last primitive society in the world. We still worship the elders of the tribe and honor the territorial imperative.

The polls show that 10 percent of the public are ready to vote for me even though they don't know I'm running. We hope that figure won't drop when they learn I'm in the race.

If any of you are secret poets, the best way to break into print is to run for the presidency.

Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life-rafts.