Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation.

Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch.

Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.

These days... it's all vanilla sex for me.

I may be paralyzed from the waist down, but unlike Gray Davis, I'm not paralyzed from the neck up.

Just because I publish pornography does not mean that I am not concerned about the social ills that all of us are.

You will encounter many distractions and many temptations to put your goal aside: The security of a job, a wife who wants kids, whatever. But if you hang in there, always following your vision, I have no doubt you will succeed.

The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend would die for you, so when you start trying to count them on one hand, you don't need any fingers.

Any time there's a scandal, we always try and get involved.

Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation.

The only question to ask yourself is, how much are you willing to sacrifice to achieve this success?

After the first million, money isn't important.

And a democracy can't exist without free speech and the right to assemble. And that's what Americans tend to forget. And they're born into a culture where they take all of their freedoms for granted.

Being in a wheelchair for 30 years. I'm not whining about it because I don't dwell on things I can't do anything about, you know. I never really think about until somebody mentions it. I did take a bullet.

I don't think many people anticipated how the Internet was going to revolutionize the way we disseminate information.

I used to buy into a former Supreme Court justice's argument that you can't scream fire in a crowded theater. Well, I think you can.

I will concede to you one thing - 'Hustler' is offensive, even to the point of being iconoclastic. That's our purpose - to be offensive.

If you're not going to offend somebody you don't need the First Amendment.

In 1973, the Supreme Court ruled that individual communities should set obscenity standards. Whenever a case is tried, it will be based on a community standard for that particular place.

Moses freed the Jews. Lincoln freed the slaves. I freed the neurotics.

Nothing can make you more humble than pain.

People aren't interested in others controlling what they can do or read or see in the privacy of their own homes.

Privacy is not explicitly spelled out in the Constitution as freedom of speech is in the First Amendment.

The right-wing of the Republican party isn't so much a political agenda as a plea for help.

There's nothing that will change someone's moral outlook quicker than cash in large sums.

Well, one thing, you got to stand in a courtroom and listen to a judge sentencing you to 25 years in prison before you realize that freedom of expression can no longer be taken for granted.

You have to be able to tolerate what you don't necessarily like so you can be free.

You know, everybody believes in free speech until you start questioning them about it.

Along with a strong belief in your own inner voice you also need laser like focus combined with unwavering determination.

Theres nothing that will change someones moral outlook quicker than cash in large sums.

No one understands that the First Amendment is only important if you are going to offend somebody. If youre not going to offend somebody you dont need protection of the First Amendment.

Freedom of speech doesnt protect speech you like it protects speech you dont like.

You will encounter many distractions and many temptations to put your goal aside The security of a job a wife who wants kids whatever. But if you hang in there always following your vision I have no doubt you will succeed.

Along with a strong belief in your own inner voice, you also need laser-like focus combined with unwavering determination.

We aim in the domain of politics at republicanism; in the domain of economics at socialism; in the domain of what is today called religion, at atheism.

I have come to realize that Jesse Helms stands for everything in politics that is anathema to me.

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.

I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.

We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

Hope springs eternal, even in politics.

Politics is about winning. If you don't win, you don't get to put your principles into practice. Therefore, find a way to win, or sit the battle out.

I don't think at my age... you can start ruling people out in politics.

The new generation of Labour is different. Different attitudes, different ideas, different ways of doing politics.

The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought.

A politics that is not sensitive to the concerns and circumstances of people's lives, a politics that does not speak to and include people, is an intellectually arrogant politics that deserves to fail.

The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible.

Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

In almost every country there are elements of opinion which would welcome such a conclusion because they wish to return to the politics of the balance of power, unrestricted and unregulated armaments, international anarchy, and preparation for war.