[on Les Paul guitars] It’s the construction and sound of it. With this material, the wood and neck construction and scale length really yields a different sound all together, and I just gravitate towards that. I pretty much get everything I want with it, so I’m very satisfied.
If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
It is clear to us that we have to defend our interests, and to do so consistently, not boorishly or rudely, in both the sphere of the economy and of defense.
Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
Read, say, George Washington, a leading figure in the settler-colonial society we live in. His view was – his words – was that we have to ‘extirpate’ the Iroquois; they’re in our way. They were an advanced civilization.
How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.
One man with a gun can control 100 without one. … Make mass searches and hold executions for found arms.
Popularity may be united with hostility to the rights of the people, and the secret slave of tyranny may be the professed lover of freedom.
The history of US foreign policy, especially after World War II, is pretty much defined by the subversion and overthrow of foreign regimes, including parliamentary regimes, and the resort to violence to destroy popular organizations…
Members of the U.S. House and the U.S. Senate are not there by accident. Each managed to get there for some reason. Learn what it was and you will know something important about them, about our country and about the American people.
I give to everybody. When they call, I give. And do you know what? When I need something from them two years later, three years later, I call them, they are there for me.
Let’s not talk about Communism. Communism was just an idea, just pie in the sky.
Kim Jong Un just stated that the Nuclear Button is on his desk at all times.Will someone from his depleted and food starved regime please inform him that I too have a Nuclear Button, but it is a much bigger and more powerful one than his, and my Button works!
As his vice president for eight years, I learned more from Ronald Reagan than from anyone I encountered in all my years of public life.
The Institute of Defense Analysis…has been working on crowd control, which means control of blacks, students, peace demonstrators. And the technology for doing this is extremely efficacious and will only improve. So that’s one reason for nonviolence.
He who votes does not have power. He who counts the votes has power.
We don’t need a weakened government but a strong government that would take responsibility for the rights of the individual and care for the society as a whole.
If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.
My life’s work has been accomplished. I did all that I could.
But I was amazed at how organized the Palestinian election authority was, how competent they were in setting up their polling places and the poll workers they had.
I am sick of all the chaos and the nastiness of our politics. It’s exhausting, and frankly, it’s depressing.
