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

Switzerland is a land where crime is virtually unknown, yet most Swiss males are required by law to keep in their homes what amounts to a portable, personal machine gun.

Being a victim is more palatable than having to recognize the intrinsic contradictions of one's own governing philosophy.

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

The good old days are now.

In the Soviet Union it was illegal to take a photograph of a train station. Look what happened to them. They tried to classify everything.