"America tried to import the two fundamentals of the Swedish welfare state—high welfare payments and an end to social disapproval of illegitimacy—beginning about 1961. In parts of the U.S., such as heavily Scandinavian Minnesota, this worked reasonably well. But American voters were confronted with stunning speed with the realization that African-Americans responded differently than Swedes did to the new incentive structures. Welfare allowed much of African-American society to revert to African-style family structures."

"What you won't hear, except from me, is that 'Let the good times roll' is an especially risky message for African-Americans. The plain fact is that they tend to possess poorer native judgment than members of better-educated groups. Thus they need stricter moral guidance from society. … In contrast to New Orleans, there was only minimal looting after the horrendous 1995 earthquake in Kobe, Japan — because, when you get down to it, [the] Japanese aren't blacks."

"Immigration policy, by its very nature, is about discriminating, about selecting whom we should admit and whom we should keep out. It is one of the fundamental responsibilities of our elected representatives because if they don’t decide, inevitably some private interest is going to decide who gets in."

"The governments of Europe are confronting an epochal choice in the Mediterranean. Do they allow Europe to remain on course toward inundation by the African population explosion, inevitably turning Florence into Ferguson and Barcelona into Baltimore?"

""Racism" is to the current era what "unAmericanism" was to the Fifties: a curse word that provides a handy substitute for logical thought."

"You are going to have to struggle with something that you have never struggled with before. I am talking to you about it now. I am talking to you about the fact that your whole life to date has been in an effort to control what you see as being finite. The whole of life for human beings, predicated on the idea that one must acquire power in order to overpower conditions that will not give them what they say they need in order to have a fixed sense of security and well-being."

"Do you know what a good life is? A good life is a life in which you never have to think about yourself again. You know why? Because you can't think about yourself without producing fear."

"A prisoner mentality is anything that blames anything outside of you for the pain you have."

"We are not here to learn to play, we are here to play to learn."

"...and for human beings on this planet it isn't wisdom that guides, it's wants."

"Every wall that I run in to is what I have yet to understand about myself and this life, and there is no other wall, none."

"There is no natural place inside of a human being for negative states. None. So if you're negative, frightened, worried, anxious, fearful, it's because you have bought into the work of the image, who shows you what it needs to show you so that you can be the person who now has to hate your condition."

"Why do you want the approval of others who don't even approve of themselves?"

"It's impossible to discover who you really are if you limit what you are willing to find out about yourself to only what you want to know."

"No man is powerful as long as power is his need."

"An unattended mind is the breeding ground of self defeat."

"Consciously giving up the last word is a secret prayer because the you that wants the last word isn't really you at all...it's that dark spirit of one-upmanship, that dark spirit of combativeness."

"Real compassion lies within our ability to remember that an angry, vengeful or hateful person is usually just someone who can no longer bear the weary weight of his or her own carefully concealed despair."

"What we find in life is based on where we put our attention. When we focus on the small worlds our thoughts create, we miss out on the beauty and possibilities we are meant to enjoy."

"The way you answer life's events, and what you experience as your life, are really one."

"Let's look at ten small places in our lives where we are trying to do the impossible and where, as a result of our misunderstanding, we are still sowing and reaping the harvest of frustration and headache:"

"Nothing in the universe can hold down that rare individual who clearly realizes that he or she dosen't know what's in the way of his or her happiness, but who is willing to find out."

"Saying "yes" for fear of saying "no" is a recipe for resentment."

"Whatever forms your resentments may take, they wreck only you, not the one you resent."

"Our Real Self is a ceaseless, ever-changing, and vital expression of eternal energies, even though this timeless nature remains veiled from us because of our present level of consciousness."

"We are the subject of all that we have yet to realize, and the object of all that we have realized."

"You know, before when (the police went) to work, they used to be like, 'I'm gonna kick somebody's ass today and so I hope I can catch somebody in a bad situation or breaking the law, because I'm gonna beat someone's ass in a big way, I think that attitude has changed."

"People, I just want to say, you know, can we all get along? Can we get along? Can we stop making it, making it horrible for the older people and the kids? … It’s just not right. It’s not right. It’s not, it’s not going to change anything. We’ll, we’ll get our justice … Please, we can get along here. We all can get along. I mean, we’re all stuck here for a while. Let’s try to work it out. Let’s try to beat it. Let’s try to beat it. Let’s try to work it out."

"It made me feel like I was back in slavery days."

"Steve-O, I don't like the man... he lost!"

"That's not Christian!"

"I'm not into bestiality, but that's a good-looking animal."

"Fire doesn't burn if you're already dead!""

"From my experiments with sexiness, seems like a lot of people are afraid at first, and fear usually equals violence. But eventually I'll win their hearts and instead of fighting they'll want to make love to me."

"Baby's cold."

"I gotta come to term with my sexuality. I gotta know what I'm all about."

"My job on this show is to be naked, not kill myself.""

"Sir, could I trouble you for a kiss?"

"Latvia gangsters. cool. I want to join them."

"Hi, I'm bunny the life guard and if there's any life-saving to do I'm the man to do it"

"When he's asleep, I wish he was awake, when he is"

"There's a very good chance we could be riding each other to Russia."

"Pedal faster! Come on, there are crocodiles in this water and I hear they'll eat anything - even plastic!"

"You're not even Mexican!"

"They say Poland is the Mexico of Europe. I don't know what that means, but I like it."

"Russian police. Stern, stern but fair"

"I'm gonna be so bummed when they announce my sexually transmitted diseases."

"Wait a minute. I already know my fortune, it's partying!"

"I guess I don't have any last words. I'm just gonna kill myself once I lose my wiener."

"You look cool, Steve-0."