By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over.

Every four years the naive half who vote are encouraged to believe that if we can elect a really nice man or woman President everything will be all right. But it won't be. Any individual who is able to raise $25 million to be considered presidential is not going to be much use to the people at large. He will represent oil, or aerospace, or banking, or whatever moneyed entities are paying for him. Certainly he will never represent the people of the country, and they know it. Hence, the sense of despair throughout the land as incomes fall, businesses fail and there is no redress.

It never occurred to any Enlightenment figure in the eighteenth century that law was not preferable to man.

We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing.

Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little.

We must always remember that the police are recruited from the criminal classes.

Of course, it is possible for any citizen with time to spare, and a canny eye, to work out what is actually going on, but for the many there is not time, and the network news is the only news even though it may not be news at all but only a series of flashing fictions.