I feel some relief that Obama had unpaid parking tickets. For a while there I was concerned that he wasn't an ordinary person. Sorta' like Clinton's first campaign mistake was saying he didn't inhale.

Good theatre should always be a part of the political process.

"If America could be, once again, a nation of self-reliant farmers, craftsmen, hunters, ranchers, and artists, then the rich would have little power to dominate others. Neither to serve nor to rule: That was the American dream."

"Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others."

"Our 'neoconservatives' are neither new nor conservative, but old as Bablyon and evil as Hell."

"The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals."

"Recorded history is largely an account of the crimes and disasters committed by banal little men at the levers of imperial machines."

"Liberty cannot be guaranteed by law. Nor by anything else except the resolution of free citizens to defend their liberties."

"Terrorism: deadly violence against humans and other living things, usually conducted by government against its own people."

"There never was a good war or a bad revolution."

"The rebel is doomed to a violent death. The rest of us can look forward to sedated expiration in a coma inside an oxygen tent, with tubes inserted in every bodily orifice."

"Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals, and county commissioners."

"In a nation of sheep, one brave man forms a majority."

"What's the difference between a whore and a congressman? A congressman makes more money."

"Democracy--rule by the people--sounds like a fine thing; we should try it sometime in America."

Quotes from a favorite writer.

Sg