It's pretty well known that the CIA has been installing friendly dictators around the world for years.

If it came to saving the life of one priest or sacrificing the life of an entire congregation, the church would save the life of the priest. Which is backwards, of course.

I mean, the most important thing to me is imagination.

It's wherever business rules, business is going to get the politicians they want because they control the money and money controls the power.

On the whole, and this comment can get me in a lot of trouble, I find that retailers in the comic book business are not business people. They're fans who've gotten themselves shops.

If you'd rather go to the football game than read a comic, that's fine. I'd rather do both.

The first thing you need to run for President is a budget of around $20 million dollars a day.

The thing about American politics, as I've learned, is there is no choice.

I've done work for hire. I've worked for DC and Dark Horse.

In the Second World War, they're talking about the Japanese traitors and putting them into concentration camps. But companies like DuPont had factories in Germany turning out stuff for the German Army.

Everything I've done is an old Marvel comic in its' own way.

Comedy, at least the way I write comedy, is just drama with jokes.

Since the Gulf War, since the new World Order, America is now the number one arms dealer in the world.

The other thing is this industry has decided it only has one market. Unlike any other industry in the world, unlike film or books or sports even, this industry has decided it has only one market and that's 14 year old boys.

I mean, price is price. It's just where you want to spend your money.

But basically, I'm trying to write a fun story.

Planet Lucy Press? I incorporated myself to deal with publishing and was calling myself Big Bang Incorporated, which of course has to do with the Big Bang at the beginning of creation.

The only reality is our society, and I mean this seriously, Western Society is a very sick society.

If I've got food and water, as long as I can exercise my mind and keep it nimble, then I'll be okay.

If you like a story that's totally different and won't know which way it's going... where it's go ing to end up and which way it's going to take you, then I think my work fits the bill.

It's pretty well known that the CIA has been installing friendly dictators around the world for years.

The violence in society, I'm afraid, is perpetrated by the people at the top.

I went to Vortex and Vortex is a whole 'nother story.

That and the fact that I knew that nobody was going to publish my work at Dark Horse or DC or anywhere.

Jesus gives his life for the congregation, not the other way around.

If you exercise your mind, you're not going to get sick.

My main point is to entertain in a way that is unique and different from what anybody else id doing; to apply my voice in a way that nobody else in the industry is applying theirs.

My wife is wonderful. She's one of the people who has changed my life around... or has allowed ME to change my life around.

If I have a question about women and their behavior or attitudes, I always double check things with Lucy.

The people that are running the bulk of the comic shops in North America aren't business people and they don't understand sales. They don't understand good product.

Marvel has put out good product. DC has put out good product. Even Image has put out good product, as far as I'm concerned... although it's few and far between. But it's not getting recognized, no matter who's doing it.

First of all: no one in their right mind would sign an exclusive contract.

The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.

Khomeini was not a puppet like Arafat or Qaddafi or the many other dictators I met in the Islamic world. He was a sort of Pope, a sort of king - a real leader.

Dictators never invent their own opportunities.

We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace.

Bosses are no more inevitable in state and local governments than dictators are in national governments. They will arise and prosper, nevertheless, if true believers of democracy - citizens devoted to the democratic ideals - do not constantly oppose them.

Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces.

Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens.

We cannot forget the little things we take for granted in America that remain the disdain of dictators and terrorists throughout the world.

We have a president for whom English is a second language. He's like 'We have to get rid of dictators,' but he's pretty much one himself.

It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.

President Bush has shown great leadership. He has said that the 21st century will not be ruled or dictated by terrorists, dictators, and murderers. He is absolutely right. God bless him for his resolve.

When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, 'That is the real thing.'

A universal draft is most often the instrument of Third World dictators.

Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear.

It's pretty well known that the CIA has been installing friendly dictators around the world for years.

A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.

There are, of course, all sorts of other unpleasant regimes outside the walls as well - the military dictators of Latin America and the apartheid regime of South Africa.