You can’t get a contemporary story about what is going on inside government, and how society sees itself, on American TV.

What we call Man’s power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

I think that society has to be careful not to shift all of its resources to the elderly versus the young.

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

I’m completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.

For me, ‚risky‘ is revealing what really happened in my life through music. Risky is writing confessional songs and telling the true story about a person with enough details so everyone knows who that person is.

Society therefore is as ancient as the world.

Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.

In my career as a director, there’s always been some point where you get halfway through it, or three-quarters, and you go: ‚What is this thing all about, and why am I telling the story? Does anybody really care about seeing this?‘ At that time you have to say: ‚OK, forget that and just go ahead.‘

The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it.

I come from a poor family, I have seen poverty. The poor need respect, and it begins with cleanliness.

It’s no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another.

In the political system, we are a team; politics and bureaucracy, we are a team. The politicians, bureaucrats and the people, we are a team.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

I don’t write material. Funny things happen to me in the course of a day, and I just make notes.

My job is not to represent Washington to you, but to represent you to Washington.

Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.

I’ve still not written as well as I want to. I want to write so that the reader in Des Moines, Iowa, in Kowloon, China, in Cape Town, South Africa, can say, ‚You know, that’s the truth. I wasn’t there, and I wasn’t a six-foot black girl, but that’s the truth.‘

There are some loony people in this world!

It’s not proper for the government to intrude too thoroughly into the domain of the family. It’s inappropriate.

To some degree it matters who’s in office, but it matters more how much pressure they’re under from the public.

It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

I guess I’m just inspired to tell stories.

Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.

Good men must not obey the laws too well.

Government does not create wealth. The major role for the government is to create an environment where people take risks to expand the job rate in the United States.

All I can say is I am sensitive to discrimination on any basis because I have experienced that upset.

You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it’s always just one person encountering the book, it’s not an audience, it’s one to one.

How long will it take the citizens of the United States, one wonders, to recognize that the house their country bombed in Iraq is the same one they were living in until it was foreclosed?

A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both.

I found that the corridors of power in Delhi were littered with lobbies of various kinds.

No man is good enough to govern another man without the other’s consent.

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.

For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he’d lie just to keep his hand in.

The proper study of mankind is woman.

You have to have a certain realism that government is a pretty blunt instrument, and without the constant attention of highly qualified people with the right metrics, it will fall into not doing things very well.

As a matter of fact, I didn’t make a political speech outside of my state for 20 years.

I believe that a government has only one religion – India first. A government has only one holy book – our Constitution. A government has only one kind of devotion – towards nation.

I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.

A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things, but not as conservative.

The fact is that we would have had comprehensive health care now, had it not been for Ted Kennedy’s deliberately blocking the legislation that I proposed in 1978 or ’79.

You’ve got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS.

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.

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.

The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man’s new sense of pity began to interfere with the ruthless workings of nature. As a result, we continue to keep alive and to breed the unfit.

We have an epidemic of insecure people in our society today.

My Democratic friends just can’t accept the fact that the American people chose Donald Trump to be president – it’s called democracy. My advice to them, and I say this gently: Fill out a ‚Hurt Feelings Report‘ and let’s move on.

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.

I became an actress because my mom wanted me to become an actress. It took me until my mid-30s to realize I actually didn’t. I actually wanted to write and direct and be more involved in politics and humanitarian issues.

You know we’re going to control the insurance companies.

Obviously, I’m no fan of the radical left.

Senator McCain is Israel’s most unconditional ally in Mossad’s machinations, something that even his worst adversaries would have been able to imagine. McCain participated alongside this secret service in the creation of the Islamic State, which has appropriated a considerable part of Iraq as well as a third of Syria, according to its affirmations.

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

Hold those things that tell your history and protect them. During slavery, who was able to read or write or keep anything? The ability to have somebody to tell your story to is so important. It says: ‚I was here. I may be sold tomorrow. But you know I was here.‘

I am making a collection of the things my opponents have found me to be and, when this election is over, I am going to open a museum and put them on display.