Catherine the Great, like others of her kind, did not succeed in imparting greatness to her descendants.
Nixon is the kind of guy who, if you were drowning twenty feet from shore, would throw you a fifteen-foot rope.
Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life rafts.
An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
This is, I say, the time for all good men not to go to the aid of their party, but to come to the aid of their country.
We do not need presidents who are bigger than the country, but rather ones who speak for it and support it.
There is danger in the concentration of control in the television and radio networks, especially in the large television and radio stations; danger in the concentration of ownership in the press. . . and danger in the increasing concentration of selection by book publishers and reviewers and by the producers of radio and television programs.
The three ingredients of poetry: the mystery of the universe, spiritual curiosity, the energy of language.
It was like I had a baby and I suddenly started to feel I could play anything.
If you look a little punkish, then they’re going to give you the parts. And if you play an iconic villain early on in your career, you tend to get asked to play one over and over and over again.
Now I'm a pretty lazy person and am prepared to work quite hard in order to avoid work.