This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

When you try to grasp the way the Western world is going, you see that we are on a ratchet towards a surveillance state, which is coming to include the whole population in its surveillance. This is our reward for accepting the restraints on the way we live now.

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.

To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.

I've been making deals all my life.