History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

Obama's health care plan will be written by a committee whose head John Conyers says he doesn't understand it. It'll be passed by Congress that has not read it signed by a president who smokes funded by a Treasury chief who didn't pay his taxes overseen by a Surgeon General who is obese and financed by a country that's nearly broke. What could possibly go wrong?

Pretty much at all times music motivates me. How can I say this without sounding in any way proud of myself? Obviously I've always written songs that are critical of our government and talk about our times. Hopefully you attempt to be timeless while doing it.

I wasn't a normal professor. I had worked in government. I hadn't written nine zillion books. I was a hands-on professor.

The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.

All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.

It is a fact often observed that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion who cannot write well under other circumstances.

Good copy can't be written with tongue in cheek written just for a living. You've got to believe in the product.

There are two good rules which ought to be written on every heart - never to believe anything bad about anybody unless you positively know it to be true never to tell even that unless you feel that it is absolutely necessary and that God is listening.