The winds that blow our billions away return burdened with themes of scorn and dispraise.

If you put a ten dollar bill under the rug instead of spending it, that is capital formation. It represents ten dollars' worth of something that might have been immediately consumed, but wasn't.

The New Deal was going to redistribute the national income according to ideals of social and economic justice.

To the revolutionary mind the American vista must have been almost as incredible as Genghis Khan's first view of China - so rich, so soft, so unaware.

Formerly government was the responsibility of people; now people were the responsibility of government.

Lenin, the greatest theorist of them all, did not know what he was going to do after he had got the power.

The winds that blow our billions away return burdened with themes of scorn and dispraise.

Is it security you want? There is no security at the top of the world.

If the great Government of the United States were a private corporation no bank would take its name on a piece of paper, because it has cynically repudiated the words engraved upon its bonds.

You do not defend a world that is already lost.

Business is in itself a power.

It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.

The spectacle of a great, solvent government paying a fictitious price for gold it did not want and did not need and doing it on purpose to debase the value of its own paper currency was one to astonish the world.

Loyalty of the law-making power to the executive power was one of the dangers the political fathers foretold.

There was endless controversy as to whether the acts of the New Deal did actually move recovery or retard it, and nothing final could ever come of that bitter debate because it is forever impossible to prove what might have happened in place of what did.

Well, where there is freedom doubt itself must be free.

Revolution in the modern case is no longer an uncouth business.

This is the problem for which revolutionary theory has yet to find the right solution, if there is one. The difficulty is that the economic interests of the two classes are antagonistic.

The New Deal's enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental.

It's important to put all I have into my career.

Two hundred and fifty mummies covered in gold. Something like this cannot be explained - mummy after mummy covered in shining gold.

In real life, I am alarmingly boring.

'Big Little Lies' is the story of a school trivia night that goes horrifically wrong, when one parent ends up dead, possibly murdered. I have never attended a school trivia night where a parent ended up dead. In fact, I've never been to a school trivia night at all.

Andy Warhol defined Pop Art.

Racing may be a minority sport, but I wouldn't swap it for all the money in the world.

If you want to be popular and famous, you can do it; it's dead easy if you have that ego desire. But most of my ego desires as far as being famous and successful were fulfilled a long time ago.

The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.

I really feel that acting for film and acting for the stage are two different crafts. I think that they share things in common. But I liken it to a painter switching over to photography. There are similar things - you have to be conscious of light and color and form - but it's a whole different medium.

Well, I think it's too early to call Fallujah a failure.

I was raising seven kids. I lived in the bedrooms, in the laundry room, in the kitchen, in the car - car pooling all over. I just didn't have time to sit down and watch a lot of TV. So I really didn't.

If there isn't a business logic to get to marketability, the chance of an idea's importance in the world is very low.

I'm so much like Luke Skywalker I guess I always will be.

If I read the articles about me, and I didn't know me, I would think I was Satan.

There is something majestic in the bad taste of Italy.

At the constitutional level where we work, 90 percent of any decision is emotional. The rational part of us supplies the reasons for supporting our predilections.

I just happen to like the work. I like preparing for a role. I like reading. I like analyzing. I like literature. I like emotions. I like working with other actors.

Even many of the teenagers who feel confident on navigating the web simply don't have the skills needed to 'write and create' digital tools, not simply consume them.

It's a great time to be doing political satire when the world is on a knife edge.

A widespread belief is more often likely to be foolish than sensible.

I would ditch school if my CD was scratched up or I couldn't get batteries. I wasn't trying to get on the bus and not be listening to music.

The phrase 'off with the crack of the bat', while romantic, is really meaningless, since the outfielder should be in motion long before he hears the sound of the ball meeting the bat.

As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.

The thought of bringing a cake into a dance music show is a bizarre one. The idea of rafting on top of people is just as bizarre as well. And I think whenever something bizarre comes into play, it immediately becomes an easy target. And for those reasons, I know that I have been the target of criticism.