One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.

If you destroyed half the pharmaceutical production in the United States, we’d think it’s a pretty serious problem. In fact, we’d probably go to war.

The public is strongly in favor of the Kyoto Protocols, so strongly in favor that a majority of Bush voters thought that he was in favor of it. They are simply unaware.

You can think of the entire Internet as a place where ideas embodied in cyberspace are having a war, and it’s not much different than the war of gods in heaven, which has been taking place since there’s been human beings.

A war is a horrible thing, but it’s also a unifier of countries.

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

With those attacks, the terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States. And war is what they got.

You will kill 10 of our men, and we will kill 1 of yours, and in the end it will be you who tire of it.

He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.

The polls show that concern over inequality among the general public rose pretty sharply after the Occupy movement started, very probably as a consequence. And there are other policy issues that came to the fore, which are significant.

Something’s very wrong with a nation that would rather spend money on war than take care of its children.

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

When you go to war as a boy, you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed, not you… Then, when you are badly wounded the first time, you lose that illusion, and you know it can happen to you.

I’ve got incredible support from my wife and family and people around me. I’ve got great people around me who handle anything on the outside, business-wise, who help free me up to create in my job.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.

The American claim that the bombing of North Vietnam was directed against military targets does not withstand direct investigation.

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

He who molds the public sentiment… makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.

There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.

When younger writers and poets, musicians and painters are weakened by a stemming of funds, they come to me saddened, not as full of dreams and excitement and ideas. I am then weakened and diminished, and made less rich.

Standing in support of children is something we should all be able to get behind, regardless of party affiliation.

My mother never gave up one me. I messed up in school so much they were sending me home, but my mother sent me right back.

I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we’re really talking about peace.

Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.

The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing.

I want to thank God, obviously for the health, for the talent He’s given me, for my family who supports me, for the things that basketball’s taught me on and off the court. For the people that I’ve been able to meet through the game of basketball.

Washington still refuses to provide evidence to support the claims in 1990 that a huge Iraqi military build-up on the Saudi border justified war.

I think, in politics, half the people are gonna like you, and half the people are not gonna like you, no matter what you do or what you say… It’s like there are no right answers. If there were, everyone would choose the right answers. They’re all opinions.

I do not think I could myself be brought to support a man for office whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.

I’d like to believe that the people that have supported me in my work or identified with me in films, the people that feel they know me, they do and they don’t have misconceptions – they understand. I believe that.

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end… I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.

My parents were just constantly affirming me in everything that I did. Late at night, I’d wake up and hear my mother talking over my bed, saying, ‚You’re going to do great on this test. You can do anything you want.‘

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.

To secure peace is to prepare for war.

I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything – diseases, spiders… and people getting tired of me.

The fame isn’t important to me. It’s a blessing to have. Having so many people that support me, that love me and listen to my music, is beautiful.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Generally speaking, the public appetite for criminal justice policy is just tough talk.

When the rich wage war, it’s the poor who die.

Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

If I am judged for my work, many myths about me as an autocrat or otherwise would become clearer. I feel false propaganda will not last, and truth will ultimately prevail.

War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

My family has never been there for me. They expect things because we’re blood.

There is probably a perverse pride in my administration… that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who’s occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can’t be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.

People like to talk about war.

I support immediate financial assistance to the newly elected Palestinian president. Now, I don’t know what those numbers will be, and I don’t know how it’s going to be framed.

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

The thing that motivates me is a very common form of motivation. And that is, with other folks counting on me, it’s so easy to be motivated.

If you ever need anything please don’t hesitate to ask someone else first.

We have an obligation to help people that cannot help themselves. The mentally retarded, the physically retarded, et cetera.

Public opinion can be influential, the media can be influential.