“I’m not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.”

“Total paranoia is just total awareness.”

“When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons.”

“I’m glad mushrooms are against the law, because I took them one time, and you know what happened to me? I laid in a field of green grass for four hours going, “My God! I love everything.” Yeah, now if that isn’t a hazard to our country … how are we gonna justify arms dealing when we realize that we’re all one?”

“I have left orders to be awakened at any time during national emergency, even if I’m in a cabinet meeting.”

“I have never voted in my life… I have always known and understood that the idiots are in a majority so it’s certain they will win.”

“An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.”

“In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans.”

“To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem.”

“You have to remember one thing about the will of the people: it wasn’t that long ago that we were swept away by the Macarena.”

“It’s now very common to hear people say, ‘I’m rather offended by that.’ As if that gives them certain rights. It’s actually nothing more… than a whine. ‘I find that offensive.’ It has no meaning; it has no purpose; it has no reason to be respected as a phrase. ‘I am offended by that.’ Well, so fucking what.”[I saw hate in a graveyard — Stephen Fry, The Guardian, 5 June 2005]”

“If our Founding Fathers wanted us to care about the rest of the world, they wouldn’t have declared their independence from it.”

“The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.”

“Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.”

“Status quo, you know, is Latin for ‘the mess we’re in’.”