If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack.

To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.

Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.

Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but of great talent; and men of no talent, but of one principle - that of obedience to their superiors.

Fraud investigations punish those who lie, knowing that they are lying, intending to fool others, and do it for money. No one should be too big to answer for that conduct.

Conserving energy and thus saving money, reducing consumption of unnecessary products and packaging and shifting to a clean-energy economy would likely hurt the bottom line of polluting industries, but would undoubtedly have positive effects for most of us.

That's what I'm tryin' to achieve. I want to be a heavyweight in this game, and I'm tryin' to get the big money. By the same token, the title 'Big Money Heavyweight' applies to everybody in the world. That's what everybody's tryin' to achieve.

The rich do not want people who come from poor families to rise to the highest position in the country.