We didn't win the Cold War, we were just a big bank that bankrupted a smaller bank because we had an arms race that wiped the Russians out.

I can`t get excited about politics, but I love it as a game. Because what I love in politics - this is very selfish of me, but who cares - what I do love in politics is this ability it has to make you think in new ways.

The fact that we've been a great democracy doesn't mean we will automatically keep being one if we keep waving the flag.

No heart is so hard as the timid heart.

Goldstein, you'd be a pretty good boy if you wasn't so chicken.

Insanity consists of building major structures upon foundations which do not exist.

Faction is that hybrid of documented fact and novelistic elaboration.