It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.

The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.

You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.

Cutting Libraries in a Recession is like cutting Hospitals in a Plague.

Obama is not a brown-skinned anti-war socialist who gives away free healthcare. You’re thinking of Jesus.

We could really speed up the whole process of drug improvement if we did not have all the rules on human experimentation. If companies were allowed to use clinical trials in Third World countries, paying a lot of poor people to take risks that you wouldn't take in a developed country, we could speed up technology quickly. But because of the Holocaust ...

What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof.

The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference and under nourishment.

I don't trust a man who uses the word evil eighteen times in ten minutes. If you're half evil, nothing soothes you more than to think the person you are opposed to is totally evil.

I'm not anti-Bush; I'm anti-Bush behavior. In other words, I'm against cheating, greed, cruelty, racism, imperialism, religious fundamentalism, treason, and the seemingly limitless capacity for hypocrisy shown by Bush and his Administration.

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.

We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.

We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if we dig deep in our history and our doctrine; and remember that we are not descended from fearful men. Not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate, and to defend causes that were for the moment unpopular.

Wherever there's injustice, oppression, and suffering, America will show up six months late and bomb the country next to where it's happening.

In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

In February [2002], CIA lawyers prudently asked for and obtained from the administration a formal exemption from President Bush's pledge to abide by "the spirit" of the Geneva Conventions. The CIA was aware, if no one else seemed to be, that the new White House policy authorized American officers to commit acts for which the Second World War Allies had hanged Gestapo and SS officers and Japanese prison-camp commanders.

My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders.