If somebody says, "I love you," to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? "I love you, too."

That’s the attractive thing about war,” said Rosewater. “Absolutely everybody gets a little something.

The hopes and fears of all our years are here with us tonight.

Literature is the only art in which the audience performs the score.

Socialism is, in fact, a form of Christianity, people wishing to imitate Christ.

So let's give another big tax cut to the super-rich. That'll teach bin Laden a lesson he won't soon forget.

America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves... It is in fact a crime for an American to be poor, even though America is a nation of poor. Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone with power and gold. No such tales are told by American poor. They mock themselves and glorify their betters.