"There are always two parties;the establishment and..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Poetry makes its own pertinence, and a single stanza outweighs a book of prose.”

“Shakespeare will never be made by the study of Shakespeare.”

“The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.”

“Why was it that they could never shout like that about anything that mattered?”

“Culture in its higher forms is a delicate plant which depends on a complicated set of conditions and is wont to flourish only in a few places at any given time.”

“To further the appreciation of culture among all the people, to increase respect for the creative individual, to widen participation by all the processes and fulfillments of artthis is one of the fascinating challenges of these days.”

“Hatred plays the same part in government as acid in chemistry.”

“I'm not so optimistic as to think that you would ever be able to garner a majority of an American Congress that would make those kinds of investments above and beyond the kinds of investments that could be made in a progressive program for lifting up all people.”

“Riskier mortgage lending practices, imposed by government, were what set the stage for many mortgage payments to stop and thus for the financial disasters that followed. Political rhetoric, echoed in the media, seeks to obscure that painfully plain fact.”