Gale is mine. I am his. Anything else is unthinkable.
If you wear a suit, you can talk to anybody.
Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character.
Talk about the flag or drugs or crime (never about race or class or justice) and follow the yellow brick road to the wonderful land of consensus. In place of honest argument among consenting adults the politicians substitute a lullaby for frightened children: the pretense that conflict doesn't really exist, that we have achieved the blessed state in which we no longer need politics.
A society that presumes a norm of violence and celebrates aggression, whether in the subway, on the football field, or in the conduct of its business, cannot help making celebrities of the people who would destroy it.
America is about class. To pretend that it isn't is very ignorant. No society has ever existed without some kind of a ruling class.
The mystical nature of American consumption accounts for its joylessness. We spend a great deal of time in stores, but if we don't seem to take much pleasure in our buying, it's because we're engaged in the acts of sacrifice and self-definition. Abashed in the presence of expensive merchandise, we recognize ourselves. . . as suppliants admitted to a shrine.
I have long been a supporter of a free and independent press and I always will be. But with freedom comes responsibility.
Government interference with the economic process represents a substitution of political for consumer objectives.
Women and girls should be able to determine their own future, no matter where they're born.
There are three basic principles behind any well-designed product: truth, humanity, and simplicity.