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“I'm gonna make sure you talk about me, and your grandkids and kids after that gonna know about me...your great grandkids will say "wow, wasn't that a bizarre individual?"”
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“President Obama likes to talk about the Buffett Rule. Well, here's a Buffett Rule that all Americans should be able to support: mom and pop businesses should not pay a higher tax rate than Fortune 500 corporations like Warren Buffett's.”
Source : "Portman Gives GOP Weekly Address: "We're Going Broke" Under Obama". www.realclearpolitics.com. July 14, 2012.
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“If there is a State, there must be domination of one class by another and, as a result, slavery; the State without slavery is unthinkable - and this is why we are the enemies of the State.”
Source : "Statism and Anarchy". Book by Mikhail Bakunin, 1873.
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“To your care and recommendation am I indebted for having replaced a half-blind mathematician with a mathematician with both eyes, which will especially please the anatomical members of my Academy.”
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“Think small and act small, and we'll get bigger. Think big and act big, and we'll get smaller.”
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“Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet.”
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“I profoundly admire Aldous Huxley, both for his philosophy and uncompromising sincerity. But I disagree with his advocacy of 'the chemical opening of doors into the Other World', and with his belief that drugs can procure 'what Catholic theologians call a gratuitous grace'. Chemically induced hallucinations, delusions and raptures may be frightening or wonderfully gratifying; in either case they are in the nature of confidence tricks played on one's own nervous system.”
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“For I think belief in God is not a matter of reason at all; I think it finally is a matter of love.”
Source : William Peter Blatty (2015). “William Peter Blatty on "The Exorcist": From Novel to Screen”, p.10, Macmillan