Alan K. Simpson

He's a million rubber bands in his resilience.

Reagan didn't put anything off the table, if he felt it was for the good of the American people to tweak the tax system.

An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style.

It is often in the name of cultural integrity as well as social stability and national security that democratic reforms based on human rights are resisted by authoritarian governments.

I like villains because there's something so attractive about a committed person - they have a plan, an ideology, no matter how twisted. They're motivated.