“You study any pretty democracy, from the ancient Greeks forward, and you'll see that the only way each system functions is with a working class of slaves. Peons to haul the garbage so the upper crust can campaign and vote.”

“The system is not working. That is how a paradigm shift begins: the established way of seeing the world no longer functions.”

“Absolutely nothing brings out the killer instinct in the upper crust of New York Society like a charity function.”

“politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other.”

“What was the fun of being upper-class if you had to work so hard to appear bored all the time?”

“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the people discover they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the canidate promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that democracy always collapses over a loose fiscal policy--to be followed by a dictatorship.”