If we are attacked we can only defend ourselves with guns not with butter.

Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play.

We can do without butter, but, despite all our love of peace, not without arms. One cannot shoot with butter, but with guns.

If we are attacked we can only defend ourselves with guns not with butter.

It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion.

The essence of propaganda consists in winning people over to an idea so sincerely, so vitally, that in the end they succumb to it utterly and can never escape from it.

Propaganda works best when those who are being manipulated are confident they are acting on their own free will.

That propaganda is good which leads to success, and that is bad which fails to achieve the desired result. It is not propaganda's task to be intelligent, its task is to lead to success.

Propaganda must facilitate the displacement of aggression by specifying the targets for hatred.

If you repeat a lie often enough it becomes accepted as truth.

People look at me and they don't see what they think is a typical Aboriginal.

I have a lot of weird interests, but everything I do is artistic.

I'm aware if I'm playing at my best I'm tough to beat. And I enjoy that.

Best friends can turn a horrible day into one of the best days of your life.

So that he seemed to depart not from life, but from one home to another.

The other day in the garage, I found a book report from the seventh grade that I did about silent movie stars. It's funny to look at now, because it really foretold what my future would be.

I want to be like the athletes who seem stuck in time. When you see them at 50, you say they probably can still run like a champ.

Give, but give until it hurts.

I think people will say, 'You know what? That Shaun Alexander, he did all right when he was here.

A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.

Newspapers are horror happening to other people.

I was kind of ashamed of my bourgeois family as a teenager, I guess - I had dreadlocks, shopped in thrift stores and pretended I had no money. At that time, I would have spat on a girl who was buying Yves Saint Laurent.

Never talk for half a minute without pausing and giving others a chance to join in.

I do want to make music that people love, but I also want to make music that I love. I know I can't please everyone with anything I do, so I don't think too much about how other people are going to take things.

In a world where companies increasingly know about their business in real time, it makes no sense that public reporting mostly follows the old quarterly schedule. Companies sit on vital information until reporting day, at which point the market goes crazy.

When you drive by Radio City and you see your name up there and it's only 'your' name. I just went 'ooh'. I thought this is really like looking at another person.

Life is very busy now. I find that in today's cities, the public is very tired after working the whole day. When concerts start at eight o'clock, the wife pushes the husband to go to the concert, where some promptly fall asleep!

Few of them were to be trusted within reach of a trowel and a pile of bricks.

The plastic bottle we're throwing away every day still stays there. And if we show that to people, then we can also promote some behavioral change.

The budget is a mythical bean bag. Congress votes mythical beans into it and then tries to reach in and pull real beans out.

Iran has interest in seeing that the Shia population of Iraq basically adhere to a line that comes from Iran.

When people in Vancouver do recognize me, they hide it. I went to a store near my home and I know they're 'Battlestar' fans - they have pictures on the wall! - and I know they know me, but everyone was so smooth and pretended I wasn't there. Most people don't realize how good they are at acting in everyday life.

A person has to get fed up with the ways of the world before he before she acquires an appetite for the world of grace.

I don't blame people who suspect my performance. My own mind suspects it. How can I blame them?