America is just downright mean.

Men have become the tools of their tools.

I would not vote for the mayor. It’s not just because he didn’t invite me to dinner, but because on my way into town from the airport there were such enormous potholes.

I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff on television every Monday from 7:30 to 8. to educate America. They couldn’t educate America if they started at 6:30.

To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows.

Humanity, you never had it to begin with.

I don’t think culture is something you can describe.

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

Football fans share a universal language that cuts across many cultures and many personality types. A serious football fan is never alone. We are legion, and football is often the only thing we have in common.

It’s overwhelmingly in the self-interest of the United States of America to have a secure, democratic friend, a strategic partner like Israel.

The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.

Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.

Especially when you’re at a high level in an organization, criticism can be devastating to an employee. I prefer to praise employees for what they’re doing right, and it tends to lead to them doing more of the same. Not always, but it’s the way I choose to bet.

If you’re in business or politics, you need to have an intense understanding of what’s going on around you.

When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before.

The mainstream is always under attack.

Public education is our greatest pathway to opportunity in America. So we need to invest in and strengthen our public universities today, and for generations to come.

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were – to the very last minute – a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

One of the things that I have admired about India is the spiritualism of the people.

Only the aspirants for president are fool enough to believe what they read in the newspapers.

You can be obsessed with the bad things people say and the good things; either way, you’re obsessed with yourself, and I’m not – you can become unhinged so easily.

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.

The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.

A President cannot always be popular.

It sure is hell to be president.

In America, there’s a failure to appreciate Europe’s leading role in the world.

America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

The upward course of a nation’s history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.

I perhaps ought to say that individually I never was much interested in the Texas question. I never could see much good to come of annexation, inasmuch as they were already a free republican people on our own model.

No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.

It’s never paid to bet against America. We come through things, but its not always a smooth ride.

A critic should be taught to criticise a work of art without making any reference to the personality of the author.

India has 2,000,000 gods and worships them all. In religion, all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.

I believe the home and marriage is the foundation of our society and must be protected.

This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don’t like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don’t expect freedom to survive very long.

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.

Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.

I’m trying to make God more relevant in our society.

Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.

I don’t like politicians, and I don’t like politics. I definitely don’t want to be associated with any of them.

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

I don’t want to express my opinion about actual politics, because if I do, I have to be responsible for my decision.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

I don’t think generally politician come from democratic country. I think not that thinking. But sometimes little bit short-sighted. They are mainly looking for their next vote.

It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.

I can say with confidence there has never been a man or a woman – not me, not Bill, nobody – more qualified than Hillary Clinton to serve as president of the United States of America.

We live in ugly times.

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

I don’t envy or much respect people who are completely politicised.

A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants.

The fundamental question I believe is, ‚Is political Islam in our best interest?‘ If not, what is our policy to authoritatively support the countervailing forces?

To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.

I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.

It is true that the king has made a truce with the duke of Burgundy for fifteen days and that the duke is to turn over the city of Paris at the end of fifteen days. Yet you should not marvel if I do not enter that city so quickly.

The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot – and it’s only a question of time before all that the mind controls will run amuck in a frenzy of stupid, impotent fear.

I don’t say very much I don’t really think through. I know that sounds inconsistent with Joe Biden.

America is the land of the second chance – and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.