Nothing would be more profitable to us than a right history of mankind.

I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.

Let this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose, and then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.

In another situation, and in an active station in life, I should have been keenly occupied, and the founding of an order would have never come into my head.

The pathological degree to which former Vice President Dick Cheney operated in secrecy led to government abuses that we'll probably spend years learning about.

My three years in politics was very instructive about the way in which the appetite for political power can destroy a human mind, destroy principles and values, and transform people into little monsters.

I'm not a person who's interested in getting involved with politics just to get involved with them, and I don't need to.

The nation will be shaped for decades by decisions that are made by President Bush and the Senate about the future of the Supreme Court.