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It's an embarrassment that we don't have a broad enough consensus among political leaders that true reform should take place. I could count the members of Congress on one hand that took these issues seriously.

Most Americans aren't the sort of citizens the Founding Fathers expected; they are contented serfs. Far from being active critics of government, they assume that its might makes it right.

War is just one more big government program.

The most fundamental purpose of government is defense, not empire.

There is something sublime about its aloofness from and its indifference to its external environment.

Well, it's 15 years since Sex, Lies And Videotape, and if you hang around long enough you're having the same arguments with just a new set of people every few years and it gets boring.

I know why we can't have a frank discussion with our policymakers - if you're in the government or in law enforcement you cannot acknowledge that drugs are anything but inherently evil and morally wrong.

Our government declared that it is conducting some kind of great reforms. In reality, no real reforms were begun and no one at any point has declared a coherent programme.

For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.

For a country to have a great writer is like having another government. That's why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.

What I really need is for people to know that I don't just do this, I do this and this and this and this. We all have creativity in us and we all are multi-dimensional and we are all interested in a lot of things and that women are fabulous. We can handle a lot of things.

They are no longer going to serve you well. You have to commit. I think the biggest word is commit. I hear women say to me all the time, and men - I want to, I want to.

I have my hormones balanced. Most doctors are giving women synthetic hormones, which just eliminate the symptoms, but it's doing nothing to actually replace the hormones you have lost. Without our hormones we die.

You can't have personal investors anymore because it's too expensive, so you have to have corporate investment or a lot of rich people.

What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in significance.

Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.

Evil gains work their punishment.

Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.