There is an old saying: In history nothing is true but the names and dates. In fiction everything is true but the names and dates. The difference between reality and fiction? Fiction has to make sense.

Morituri non cognant, perhaps. Those who are about to die — just don't know.

What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It's not good at much else.

Anti-Catholicism is the last respectable prejudice. You can't hate black people anymore, of course, and you can't hate homosexuals anymore, but you can hate all the Catholics you want.

I am a politician which means I am a liar and a crook. When I am not kissing babies I am stealing their lollypops.

Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed.

Victory comes only to those prepared to make it, and take it.