“Always remember... We are engaged in a battle for the continuation ofour capitalist, free-market economic model; our way of life; and ourliberty. The enemy is anticapitalist, believes in big government, embracescollectivist ideologies, and has, over the past century, infiltrated everylevel of our government and most of the banking industry. They don’t care about patriotism, although they may sport the red, white, andblue and the stars and stripes on their bumper stickers. They don’tcare about personal responsibility or civic duty. They don’t share yoursense of honor. All they care about is power and control over yourmoney and every aspect of your life.”

“Alwasy remember.... We are engaged in a battle for the continuation ofour capitalist, free-market economic model; our way of life; and ourliberty. The enemy is anticapitalist, believes in big government, embracescollectivist ideologies, and has, over the past century, infiltrated everylevel of our government and most of the banking industry. They don’t care about patriotism, although they may sport the red, white, andblue and the stars and stripes on their bumper stickers. They don’tcare about personal responsibility or civic duty. They don’t share yoursense of honor. All they care about is power and control over yourmoney and every aspect of your life.”

“I don’t find our relative insignificance disheartening at all: The main thing it tells me is that in a culture that worships celebrity and the purportedly extraordinary, ALL people are ordinary people. ALL people have the same responsibilities to themselves and to each other. Maybe the universe cares nothing for us, but WE care about each other. And most encouragingly, we care not just for our friends or family but for the whole enterprise of life—we care about strangers and about humpback whales and, most beautifully of all, we care about the dead. We try with our lives to honor theirs. That’s how we make our lives meaningful, and how we make their lives meaningful, too.”

“So no one cares - and that protects your personal privacy. At least most of the time no one cares. I'm not making the argument that if we're doing nothing wrong, then we shouldn't be afraid of the government monitoring us. That's a stupid, bad argument. We should always be afraid of any government monitoring us. The fact that no one cares what we're talking about is an argument for keeping it that way. We don't want the government to be able to care. Any power you give the government, the government will abuse. George Washington almost said that.”

“Those who make us believe that anything’s possible and fire our imagination over the long haul, are often the ones who have survived the bleakest of circumstances. The men and women who have every reason to despair, but don’t, may have the most to teach us, not only about how to hold true to our beliefs, but about how such a life can bring about seemingly impossible social change. ”

“Choose your friends carefully but don’t worry about your enemies, they will choose you”