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"We are all alone in this world, even in a crowd."
"I think we do need a Constitutional amendment to take the profit out of politics by imposing term limits."
"He wasn't dealing with underage girls or porn, just spreading the word of jihad to young, impressionable people, which, unfortunately, was not a crime."
"Brent had a love-hate relationship with the Government. He hated what it had become over the years and loved to make an issue about it."
"The financial elite already have the politicians in their pockets, as a result of their lobbying."
"Sometimes you can get more answers by not asking any questions."
"We forget that we humans are animals, inextricably connected to the world and everything in it. In the rush to bring GMO food to the world because it was good for us, nobody had asked the question whether it would be good for the world."
"Politics should be a field that attracts statesmen, not future CEO's and board members."
"Responsibility comes with every relationship."
"Fairness is a term that is interpreted different ways. For the government, fair is whatever suits their needs."
"Well, banks are the biggest mafia, you know, except for the government of course."
"That's the ironic thing about time, Doc. One the one hand, we don't have much of it for this, but it's all I have in here."
"Some of the most likeable people on the outside are capable of truly heinous things."
"I think most of what the majority of people say is said without thinking."
"On a basic level, he had seen first-hand how his government used the element of fear to accomplish its objectives; the same element of fear that had been used as an excuse to engage its huge war machine in conflicts for the profits of America's oligarchy."
"Nothing is easy, and, with respect to legal work, that was absolutely true."
"The trouble with making an important decision was that you never had enough information to do it without hesitating. And it's the hesitation that gnawed at you and never helped you to make the decision."
"It's not going to be easy, but it's kind of like ripping off a band-aid. Painful for a minute, but it has to be done."
"Almost everyone in politics nowadays has at least one conflict of interest."
"But, in making the sacrifices that the Government asks us to make, we are not protecting our freedom. We are giving away our freedom in exchange for a false sense of security."
"The Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution, intact for over 200 years, guaranteed that the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath of affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. After September 11th, 2001, those were just words on an old piece of paper, no longer a restriction of the Government's overreaching power to shake down its subjects."
"You always have a choice. Destiny deals you your hand and what you do with the cards is up to you."
"Genetic engineering was messy. To force a sequence of foreign DNA into a plant, you couldn't just snip the desired gene from the bacteria and sew it on to the plant's DNA sequence like an old woman working on a quilt."
"From anonymous bullying to anonymous murder for hire, the Internet had something for every sick taste."
"Once you deposit that money in your checking account, it becomes the bank's money and you're just another one of their creditors."
"When they say whatever you say may be used against you, they mean it!"
"The test of any relationship is, when the going gets tough, whether your partner stays with you or 'gets going'."
"There are two kinds of people we meet in our lives who make a difference: those who remain in our lives and those we only meet once. Each kind has a different type of impact, but both are important."
"He was right, and the pursuit of justice was also a game, where one man or woman employed by the Government, or sometimes twelve men and women, decided the fate of another. Whether or not that decision was just depended on your point of view. The winner usually thought it was a just result: The loser bore the consequences."
"The truth can't hide, Colonel. Sooner or later it will rise to the top, like oil in water."
"Their lips met with a tender and powerful force. At that point, they melted into each other and Seth felt a flush of sensations over his entire being. Hands wandered naturally, and each caress became more exciting and pleasurable. Where the body ended and the soul began was a mystery in this ancient game of combinations."