All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.

It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am.

I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.

Nothing is impossible.

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.