In countries where innocent people are dying, the leaders are following their blood rather than their brains.

A director makes 100 decisions an hour. Students ask me how you know how to make the right decision, and I say to them, ‚If you don’t know how to make the right decision, you’re not a director.‘

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.

Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.

A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.

John F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occupies the minds of the few but brings danger to the many.

I believe in a president whose religious views are his own private affair, neither imposed by him upon the nation or imposed by the nation upon him as a condition to holding that office.

People were asleep, but I think they’re waking up now. Trump has given everybody a good kick, and people are waking up and realizing they’ve got to get involved.

When you are young you tend to do so many things that are not needed. When you get experience, you know what exactly what works for you and you tend to do things that you want.

We can’t have special interests sitting shotgun. We gotta have middle class families up in front. We don’t mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back.

The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.

I gave ‚em a sword. And they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if I had been in their position, I’d have done the same thing.

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.

I think that if I would talk on a political subject, if I talk about it, it would divide the audience on that issue. That’s not my issue.

Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

There’s only one person in this race who will be there, who’s always been there for you, and that’s Hillary Clinton’s life story.

The United States tyrannizes and pillages the globalized world with its political, economic, technological, and military might.

I love being in the United States Senate.

You have to just make the choices you make in life. I made the choices I made because I believed they were right for me.

The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.

You have to develop ways so that you can take up for yourself, and then you take up for someone else. And so sooner or later, you have enough courage to really stand up for the human race and say, ‚I’m a representative.‘

A lot of people tell me a lot of things about my conduct, my game, my future… but I try to stay away from their words of wisdom. I don’t let it distract me. On the field, you will be facing the ball alone. If you fail, you will the only one to blame. So, you should be the one deciding for yourself.

Most liberals think of civil liberties as their Achilles heel. It isn’t.

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.

We’re not like robots. God promises to guide us through the Holy Spirit, but He gives us the freedom to make our own decisions.

At one point he decided enough was enough.

It’s not called quitting if you quit while you ahead. It’s about being aware and being strategic enough to know that you got to get out the pool at some point. You got to put your clothes back on and dry off.

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.

Any man can call time out, but no man can say how long the time out will be.

President Assad, I worked with. I know him reasonably well, met with him a few times, and he’s a liar.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.

Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

I grew up in the South under segregation. So, I know what terrorism feels like – when your father could be taken out in the middle of the night and lynched just because he didn’t look like he was in an obeying frame of mind when a white person said something he must do. I mean, that’s terrorism, too.

Some of the generals are saying, ‚We’re making progress. We are clearing an area.‘ But you really don’t defeat the Taliban by clearing an area. They move.

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

Nowadays, politically, everybody is promising everything. That’s the only way you can get elected.

The Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it’s hardly a traditional political party anymore.

Israelis would mostly breathe a sigh of relief if Palestinians were to disappear.

Anyone can be a moral individual, concerned with human rights and problems; but only a college professor, a trained expert, can solve technical problems by ‚sophisticated‘ methods. Ergo, it is only problems of the latter sort that are important or real.

I stay out of politics because if I begin thinking too much about politics, I’ll probably… drop writing children’s books and become a political cartoonist again.

The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.

Even if you’re happy with the life you’ve chosen, you’re still curious about the other options.

I’m a singer, not a politician, and I think you don’t want the two to get confused. It’s not OK to be on CNN talking about people starving and then tell the interviewer that your new album is coming out in six months.

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

The biggest mistake we made as a company was betting too much on HTML5.

Everybody is a political person, whether you say something or you are silent. A political attitude is not whether you go to parliament; it’s how you deal with your life, with your surroundings.

Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.

You should do what other people do, unless you have a very good reason not to.

Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.

It’s not easy being young. It’s hard to know what to do.

In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.

As I have done in every election since I started voting so many years ago, I always like to take my time and examine the two candidates, see not only the two candidates but the policies they will bring in, the people they will bring in, who they might appoint to the Supreme Court, and look at the whole range of issues before making a decision.

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.

I’m going to be so much better a president for having been at the CIA that you’re not going to believe it.

For a sitting U.S. president to see our allies as freeloaders is nuts.

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.

Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do.