If you want to rise in politics in the United States, there is one subject you must stay away from, and that is politics.

Before the cards that one is dealt by life are the cards that fate has dealt: one's family.

Which other major religion is based on the Godhead incarnate being whipped, tacked to a cross, stabbed? Only the Marquis de Sade could have made up a sicker religion. It's no wonder that those brought up in such a culture hate life and enjoy inflicting pain. All societies are sick but some are sicker than others. Christian societies are certainly the sickest.

No reform ever came from the bottom, and it was always people who understood how the ruling class worked who turned out to be the reformers.

I don't seem to be cynical to myself but how what I say goes down with others is their problem. I'm realistic.

Heaven's sakes, there's only one party which I call the Property Party. It's got two wings. One is called the "Republican" and one is called "Democratic." It is the same party so it makes no difference whether a Democrat's elected or a Republican's elected. The ownership remains the same.

Democracy is something America has never really practiced. Because the Founding Fathers hated two things: monarchy and democracy. They wanted a republic, a replica of the Roman or Venetian republics. They didn't even like the etymology of the word "democracy."