"I once complained to my father that I didn't seem to be able to do things
the same way other people did. Dad's advice? 'Margo, don't be a sheep. People
hate sheep. They eat sheep.'"
--Margo Kaufman
"I used to say that politics was the second oldest profession, and I have
come to know that it bears a gross similarity to the first."
--Ronald Reagan
"The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't
read them."
--Mark Twain
"The big cities of America are becoming Third World countries."
--Nora Ephron
"There is so much to be said for modern journalism. By giving us the opinions
of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the
community."
--Oscar Wilde
"The United States is like the guy at the party who gives cocaine to everybody
and still nobody likes him."
--Jim Samuels
"An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay
bought."
--Simon Cameron
"If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever
that search may lead us. The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on
a ten-foot chain."
--Adlai E. Stevenson, Jr.
"Even on the highest throne in the world, we are still sitting on our
ass."
--Michael de Montaigne
"An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints
the chaff."
--Adlai E. Stevenson, Jr.
"Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority
and to speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us?"
--William O. Douglas
"To be governed is to be watched over, inspected, spied on, directed, legislated
at, regulated, docketed, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, assessed,
weighed, censored, and ordered about by men who have neither the right nor
the knowledge nor the virtue."
--Pierre Joseph Proudhon
