How to get people to vote against their interests and to really think against their interests is very clever. It's the cleverest ruling class that I have ever come across in history. It's been two hundred years at it. It's superb.

Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent.

The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.

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.

Nothing human is finally calculable; even to ourselves we are strange.

I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.

This separation was absolute in our original Republic. But the sky-godders do not give up easily. In the 1950s they actually got the phrase In God We Trust onto the currency, in direct violation of the First Amendment.