Congress no longer declares war or makes budgets. So that's the end of the constitution as a working machine.

Populists have never had a good press in Freedom's land.

In almost every case (where the United States has fought wars) our overwhelming commitment to freedom, democracy and human rights has required us to support those regimes that would deny freedom, democracy and human rights to their own people.

I write in the morning at a table, longhand on yellow legal pads, just like Nixon, when I’m doing fiction.

People have forgotten the effects of prohibition. We have become the United Statesof Amnesia.

As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.

Monotheism is easily the greatest disaster to befall the human race.