Matthew

“Electing a black man named Barack Obama President in the same country that elected George W. Bush - twice! - is as far-fetched as a hustler from Marcy performing at that President's inauguration. But it happened.”
― Jay-Z, Decoded

“... I tried to end our little duel. I called out pacifying words; I entreated; I finally surrendered. Still Clyde came, my pirate costume so great a success that it had apparently convinced him that we were back in the golden days of romantic old New Orleans when gentlemen decided matters of hot dog honor at twenty paces”
― John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

“As in the past, the costs and risks of the coming phases of the industrial economy were to be socialized, with eventual profits privatized ...”
― Noam Chomsky, Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy

“When legislature is corrupted, the people are undone.”
― John Adams