A capitalist is someone who derives a substantial share of his income from his equity in producing companies. On this scale the figures are discouraging. Approximately ninety percent of the capital of this country is owned by five or less percent of the American people.
Earlier this month the State Department gave the umpteenth performance of its popular play, Please Tread on Me, with Ceylon as guest star, and the usual cast.
I find it easier to believe in God than to believe Hamlet was deduced from the molecular structure of a mutton chop.
The New York Times, whose editorial department sounds like Cotton Mather rewriting Eleanor Roosevelt...
The Beatles are not merely awful. They are so unbelievably horrible, so appallingly unmusical, so dogmatically insensitive to the magic of the art, that they qualify as crowned heads of anti-music.
We love your adherence to democratic principles.
We cheerleaders are peppy and happy and get front row seats to the game!
Pennsylvania is home to some of the hardest-working, toughest, most decent people in America.
I believe the United States should make the protection of Syrian civilians from war crimes and crimes against humanity a higher priority.
I was heart broken, scared, I had a lot of anxiety, I was worried, I felt weak, and I had no idea how I was ever going to come up with the strength. But I just closed my eyes, and took a blind leap. I knew I had to get out of there.
Pennsylvania couldn’t be prouder of our native son, Joe Biden from Scranton. No one knows us better than Joe.
I’ve been all over the world. I love New York, I love Paris, San Francisco, so many places. But there’s no place like New Orleans. It’s got the best food. It’s got the best music. It’s got the best people. It’s got the most fun stuff to do.
New Orleans is my essence, my soul, my muse...
Life is really like that: there are certain things that are wonderful and certain things that are not so wonderful and what you are going to do about it. With grace and with dignity, move through them. Deal with them.
It is really rare to find someone you really, really love and that you want to spend your life with and all that stuff that goes along with being married. I am one of those lucky people. And I think she feels that way too. So the romantic stuff is easy because you want them to be happy.
It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most.
Safety’s just danger, out of place.
Golf is good, it means I get some fresh air and exercise, take my mind off work and see some of the landscape of the place I’m visiting.
Live theater is just an incredibly powerful medium, and I think anyone who goes, whether they know about it or not, if they see something that sort of fits with them, it’s kind of hard to deny that they had a good time.
I struggle every day with trying to be a better dad, a better husband, better musician, better artist. It consumes me, and I don’t see an end in sight.