"If you've managed to remain a Luddite - one who resists technology - you're surrounded by people who don't, so you're affected more than you may realize."

“Imagine a senator running for president whose positions included halving the military budget, socializing the medical system, re-regulating the communications and electrical industries, establishing a guaranteed minimum income for all Americans, and equalizing funding for all schools regardless of property valuations - and who promised to fire Alan Greenspan, counseled withdrawal from the World Trade Organization, and, for good measure, spoke warmly of adolescent sexual experimentation. That was Barry Goldwater, conservative.”

“When I listen to a record, or when I'm making a record, I listen to everything. I listen to the drums, the bass, the voice, the arrangement. I listen to the whole piece as an ensemble.”

“Here's what I see all across this great city - people working together to make Boston a better place to live and to raise children, to grow and pursue dreams.”

“If you conquer yourself, then you conquer the world”

“Travelling, gentlemen, is medieval, today we have means of communication, not to speak of tomorrow and the day after, means of communication that bring the world into our homes, to travel from one place to another is atavistic.”

“Since you have to do the things you have to do, be wise enough to do some of the things you want to do.”

“Whenever I hear anything described as a heartless assault on our children I tend to think it's a good idea.”

Source : "Conservatives Are Such Jokers". www.nytimes.com. October 5, 2007.

“When a job is to be done there's no use putting it off.”