Gates's net wealth is greater than the combined net worth of the poorest 40% of Americans (112,000,000 people).

For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.

Every time I see something terrible, it's like I see it at age 19. I keep a freshness that way.

When I went to Harvard Law School I became interested in the connection between legal standards for safety and automobile engineering design. At that time, it was all blamed on a "nut behind the wheel," so-called, the driver. But I knew that the vehicle had a great deal to do with that because I had come across some Air Force-sponsored studies at medical schools. The Air Force found they were losing more men on the highways than in the Korean War.

President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people.

The corporate lobby in Washington is basically designed to stifle all legislative activity on behalf of consumers.

The 60th seed at Wimbledon gets a chance at Center Court. The 60th seed in the NCAA gets a chance to go to the Final Four. But the third seed [in presidential politics] is shut out.