Being a wiseass in a groupthink environment is like throwing an egg at a bulldozer.

America has two national budgets, one official, one unofficial.

In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.

Obviously, people who commit crimes should be punished. Even people who steal socks and 'Snow White' videos should probably do time if they have priors, especially serious priors. But the punishment has to fit the crime, and the standard has to be the same for everyone.

Wall Street has turned the economy into a giant asset-stripping scheme, one whose purpose is to suck the last bits of meat from the carcass of the middle class.

America's always had a real passion for lunatic movements. That's one of the things we're probably known for around the world, I would imagine.

There are some who think that the government is limited in how many corruption cases it can bring against Wall Street, because juries can't understand the complexity of the financial schemes involved. But in 'U.S.A. v. Carollo,' that turned out not to be true.