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“I began writing after my child was seriously hurt in a day care center accident, and I wanted to come home to be with her during her recovery.”
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“Everything in life has a price on it - there ain't a damn thing free in America, and football has got a price on it.”
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“The invisible government tends to be concentrated in the hands of the few because of the expense of manipulating the social machinery which controls the opinions and habits of the masses. To advertise on a scale which will reach fifty million persons is expensive. To reach and persuade the group leaders who dictate the public's thoughts and actions is likewise expensive.”
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“I also feel I adapted. I was willing to try to fit into any role. The way I figured, it was always up to me to prove my worth, that I deserved to be here.”
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“Gays have become colossal bores. Once interesting and iconoclastic, all they seem to crave nowadays is the State's pension and seal of approval. They ought to go back to the days of the Stonewall Riots, when the police's violations of privacy and private property were the object of their anger and activism.”
Source : "Brokeback Mountain' Revisited". WorldNetDaily.com, June 9, 2006.
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“The truth is that liberal humanism is at once largely ineffectual, and the best ideology of the 'human' that present bourgeois society can muster.”
Source : Terry Eagleton (2008). “Literary Theory: An Introduction”, p.174, U of Minnesota Press
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“I can't control what other people do or say. I can only control the one vote I've been bestowed upon by the people in the Tennessee Valley.”
Source : "10 Freshmen Lawmakers Talk With Diane Sawyer". Interview with Diane Sawyer, abcnews.go.com. August 1, 2011. 
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“Take away wilderness and you take away the opportunity to be American.”
Source : Roderick Frazier Nash (2014). “Wilderness and the American Mind: Fifth Edition”, p.262, Yale University Press
