If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us.

Look, all administrations, all governments lie, all officials lie and nothing they say is to be believed. That's a pretty good rule.

There are two types of courage involved with what I did. When it comes to picking up a rifle, millions of people are capable of doing that, as we see in Iraq or Vietnam. But when it comes to risking their careers, or risking being invited to lunch by the establishment, it turns out that's remarkably rare.

We were young, we were foolish, we were arrogant, but we were right.

I agree that there are things that should be kept secret.

Obama is making a choice now that will lead to the deaths of many thousands of civilians in Afghanistan by American hands. By ordinary standards of presidents, he is a decent man. But those standards aren't good enough. He's in a position either to kill or not to kill, and he's made the decision to kill.

Nixon did have a secret plan, and I knew that it involved making threats of nuclear war to North Vietnam.

If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us.

The fact is that when it comes to judgment as to what should be secret and what should not be secret, Julian Assange's judgment has been pretty good so far.

Only we, the public, can force our representatives to reverse their abdication of the war powers that the Constitution gives exclusively to the Congress.

President Johnson put destroyers in harm's way in the Tonkin Gulf not only once, but several times, with the, with a lot of his people hoping that it would lead to a confrontation and claiming that it had. And could have resulted in the lost of many lives in the course of it.

If there's another 9/11 or a major war in the Middle-East involving a U.S. attack on Iran, I have no doubt that there will be, the day after or within days an equivalent of a Reichstag fire decree that will involve massive detentions in this country.

It was a good 15 or 20 years before anyone at Rand would be in the same room with me. They didn't want the question raised, 'What's your relationship with Daniel Ellsberg?' And not one of them wrote me a letter because they didn't want a letter of theirs to show up in my trash - which the FBI had been going through.

There should be at least one leak like the Pentagon Papers every year.

My feelings of revulsion and foreboding about nuclear weapons had not changed an iota since 1945, and they have never left me. Since I was 14, the overriding objective of my life has been to prevent the occurrence of nuclear war.

If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us.

Every suggested idea produces a corresponding physical reaction. Every idea constantly repeated ends by being engraved upon the brain, provoking the act which corresponds to that idea.

I've met actors where you think, if only you could just clean up your act and get it together, people would want to work with you. Some people are so difficult, it's just not worth working with them.

I am confident my Hindutva face will be an asset when dealing with foreign affairs with other nations.

Nobody, in my lifetime, in either party, has reached out with a message of hope, growth and opportunity to minorities better than Jack Kemp.

We met and married when both of us knew exactly what our jobs were. He was only 32, but he'd been all over the place. I'd been working on films and television shows all over the world.

You can tell a lot about a person by the people who work for them.

Writers, not psychiatrists, are the true interpreters of the human mind and heart, and we have been at it for a very long time.

My grandma passed away at 98 1/2 and I want to live to 100. I want to be able to do what I can do even at 100.

If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?

If we lack emotional intelligence whenever stress rises the human brain switches to autopilot and has an inherent tendency to do more of the same only harder. Which more often than not is precisely the wrong approach in todays world.

I am not responsible for the financial crisis, I hate to tell you.

There is no Constitutional right to prey on others. The Internet is just a piece of technology, like the telephone. Society has the right to modify its uses.

Anything is possible when your man smells like Old Spice and not a lady. I'm on a horse.

I always felt different as a kid, and the Kinks were like, 'Yeah, we're the Kinks.' Celebrate your difference; don't be afraid of your sense of humor, or your personality, or who you are. It emboldened me.

I've always been fascinated by chefs and the worlds of chefs - what they do is incredibly cinematic.

I think when you're a bigger star you get many good scripts sent to you, and you have to choose which one you're going to gravitate toward, but I just try to gravitate toward the best-written one that's been thrown my way after a lot of girls have passed on it.

I don't have a lot of discipline.

By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.

Knots Landing is the best thing that ever happened to me.

I have twins that I didn't want to have the life that I had. I didn't have a great life growing up.

Never let an angry sister comb your hair.

Those of us who are pro-life should demand more from Congress.

A bee is never as busy as it seems; it's just that it can't buzz any slower.

I feel a man, when married, becomes more balanced. All the extra-curricular activities are done away with. The focus is on work and family.