Unfortunately, corruption is widespread in government agencies and public enterprises. Our political system promotes nepotism and wasting money. This has undermined our legal system and confidence in the functioning of the state. One of the consequences is that many citizens don't pay their taxes.

I kind of realize that I have a tendency to choose the kind of films I watched when I was a kid and would go home and pretend with my friends that we were in those movies after we saw them.

Samuel L. Jackson

Out of the crooked timber of humanity no straight thing can ever be made.

Immanuel Kant, from From Idee zu

If you're the village blacksmith and a model T comes along, you better become a mechanic. People's lives are better when they get news online versus having to wait for the morning paper. It's a lot more efficient, a lot more real time, a lot less waste.

Marc Andreessen

The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode.

Flannery O'Connor

You don't have to be stupid to be a Christian, ... but it probably helps.

Ambrose Bierce

Bright lights cast dark shadows when shone from only one direction.

David Kelley

I'm not interested in the next generation, dear. I'm interested in .' - Julia

George Orwell

Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid.

Homer

Abraham Lincoln comes from nothing, has no education, no money, lives in the middle of nowhere on the frontier. And despite the fact that he suffers one tragedy and one setback after another, through sheer force of will, he becomes something extraordinary: not only the president but the person who almost single-handedly united the country.

Seth Graham-Smith

You look at the steamboat, the railroad, the car, the airplane - not all of these were invented in the Anglo-American world, but they were popularized and extended by it. They were made possible by the financial architecture, the capital intensive operations invented and developed by the Anglo-Americans.

Walter Russell Mead

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.

Plato

An inspection of the Constitution will show that the right of property in a slave is not distinctly and expressly affirmed in it.

Abraham Lincoln