“If suffering through four years of hellishly misguided big government is the price we pay for true reform, it may in the end be worth it.”

“Boom/bust cycles are not inevitable and would not occur were it not for the inflationary monetary policies that always precede recessions.”

“They should let my son be Federal Reserve chairman. At least he'll play with his toys and not ruin the economy.”

“As Dio observed later, democracy sounded very well and good, “but its results are seen not to agree at all with its title. Monarchy, on the contrary, has an unpleasant sound, but is a most practical form of government to live under. For it is easier to find a single excellent man than many of them.”

“Cleopatra stood at one of the most dangerous intersections in history; that of women and power. Clever women, Euripides had warned hundreds of years earlier, were dangerous.”

“[Cleopatra's] power has been made to derive from her sexuality, for obvious reason; as one of Caesar's murderers had noted, 'How much more attention people pay to their fears than to their memories!' It has always been preferable to attribute a woman's success to her beauty rather than to her brains, to reduce her to the sum of her sex life.”

“We rehearse for the big death through the little death of orgasm, through erotic living. Death as transfiguration”