There are two kinds of people: the ones who need to be told and the ones who figure it out all by themselves.

Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.

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

The KGB still killed people, the KGB would not execute its last prisoner until the final days of its existence in 1991, but by the eighties a termination required paperwork and signatures and a post-action review.

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

About forty percent of the people vote Democrat. About forty percent vote Republican. Of those eighty percent, most wouldn't change their votes if Adolf Hitler was running against Abe Lincoln - or against FDR. . . . That leaves twenty percent of the people who swing back one way or another . . . the true independents. . . . That twenty percent controls the destiny of the country.

I think it's an intellectual duty for a person who lives in a free society to read material not only with which you agree, but with which you disagree. Because every so often somebody you think is wrong will actually turn out to be right.