"In addition to their power over government based on government financing and personal influence, bankers could steer governments in ways they wished them to go by other pressures."

"The traditional Christian attitude toward human personality was that human nature was essentially good and that it was formed and modified by social pressures and training."

"This persistence as private firms continued because it ensured the maximum of anonymity and secrecy to persons of tremendous public power who dreaded public knowledge of their activities as an evil almost as great as inflation."

"Thus, the use of fiat money is more justifiable in financing a depression than in financing a war."

"The Carter Center has the only existing international taskforce on disease eradication. Which means a total elimination of a disease on the face of the Earth. In the history of the world, there's only been one disease eradicated: smallpox. The second disease, I think, is gonna be guinea worm."

"This is a good time to ask apologists for the Islamic regime, who degrades Islam? Who imposes stoning, forced marriage of underage girls and flogging for not wearing the veil? Do such practices represent Iran's ancient history and culture, its ethnic and religious diversity? Its centuries of sensual and subversive poetry?"

"You had to be aware that I saw that photography was a mere episode in the history of the optical projection and when the chemicals ended, meaning the picture was fixed by chemicals, we were in a new era."

"Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins."