Corruption is one of the most common reasons I hear in views that criticize aid.

Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

It has not yet become obvious to me that there’s no real problem. I cannot define the real problem; therefore, I suspect there’s no real problem, but I’m not sure there’s no real problem.

Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.

I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air.

It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.

It is always good men who do the most harm in the world.

The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.

There is good and mediocre writing within every genre.

The economy’s always been the engine for our national security.

I’ve analyzed the best I can… and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course.

Richard Nixon was an evil man – evil in a way that only those who believe in the physical reality of the Devil can understand it. He was utterly without ethics or morals or any bedrock sense of decency.

For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.

The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.

Where do the evils like corruption arise from? It comes from the never-ending greed. The fight for corruption-free ethical society will have to be fought against this greed and replace it with ‚what can I give‘ spirit.

The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.

The U.S. increasingly has taken on the characteristics of what we describe as ‚failed states.‘

If the experiments which I urge be defective, it cannot be difficult to show the defects; but if valid, then by proving the theory, they must render all objections invalid.

The concept of Kimye has more cultural significance than what Page Six could write.

Biography lends to death a new terror.

We should not look at terrorism from the nameplates – which group they belong to, what is their geographical location, who are the victims. These individual groups or names will keep changing.

Politics… have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts… perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

The very phrase ‚foreign affairs‘ makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.

The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.

If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.

The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.

Experts often possess more data than judgment.

There’s no such thing as going to a soapbox and saying, ‚The government’s corrupt,‘ and not having the intelligence service see your face. In the digital world, that can be done.

Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing.

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

Dissents speak to a future age.

In the wake of the events of 11 September 2001, it now seems clear that the shock of the attacks was exploited in America.

The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes.

Trying to be fascinating is an asinine position to be in.

The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.

The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.

If all the economists were laid end to end, they’d never reach a conclusion.

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 most successful war seldom pays for its losses.

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

I don’t think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times.

Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long.

All art is quite useless.

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

I’m not a macroeconomics person.

I groan daily under a body of sin and corruption. Oh for the time when I shall drop this flesh, and be free from sin!

Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

I consider myself to be as informed on American foreign policy as anyone in America.

If anyone offers conjectures about the truth of things from the mere possibility of hypotheses, I do not see by what stipulation anything certain can be determined in any science, since one or another set of hypotheses may always be devised which will appear to supply new difficulties.

What we achieved was a nuclear pause, not a nuclear halt.

Women deeply want men who are competent and powerful. And I don’t mean power in that they can exert tyrannical control over others. That’s not power. That’s just corruption.

We should not look at terrorism from the nameplates – which group they belong to, what is their geographical location, who are the victims. These individual groups or names will keep changing. Today you are looking at the Taliban or ISIS; tomorrow you might be looking at another name.

It’s not a coincidence that in the Scriptures, poverty is mentioned more than 2,100 times. It’s not an accident. That’s a lot of air time, 2,100 mentions.

Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.

Well, when you come down to it, I don’t see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?

Although the big word on the left is ‚compassion,‘ the big agenda on the left is dependency.

I am not a televangelist.