In the United States, one of the main topics of academic political science is the study of attitudes and policy and their correlation. The study of attitudes is reasonably easy in the United States: heavily-polled society, pretty serious and accurate polls, and policy you can see, and you can compare them.

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.

While the crash only took place six months ago, I am convinced we have now passed the worst, and with continued unity of effort, we shall rapidly recover. There is one certainty of the future of a people of the resources, intelligence and character of the people of the United States – that is, prosperity.

Greece has been, in many ways, a partially dysfunctional society. For example, the wealthy barely pay taxes… to an extent, that’s true elsewhere, including the United States, but it’s been pretty extreme in Greece.

A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.

The innocence of childhood is like the innocence of a lot of animals.

The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced – the just demands of peace and security will be met – or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.

Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.

I don’t have freedom in the United States to go into a public school and preach the Gospel, nor is a student free in a public school to pray, or a teacher free to read the Bible publicly to the students. At the same time, we have a great degree of freedom for which I am grateful.

In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.

We always live in an uncertain world. What is certain is that the United States will go forward over time.

We Americans… bear the ark of liberties of the world.

One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.

If you’re low-income in the United States, you have a higher chance of going to jail than you do of getting a four-year degree. And that doesn’t seem entirely fair.

The process of shaping opinion, attitudes, and perceptions was termed the ‚engineering of consent‘ by one of the founders of the modern public relations industry, Edward Bernays.

I didn’t take many penalties, but I never missed one.

To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.

Over the last 15 months, we’ve traveled to every corner of the United States. I’ve now been in 57 states? I think one left to go.

My idea, as the whole world knows, is that the capitalist system now doesn’t work either for the United States or the world, driving it from crisis to crisis, which are each time more serious.

If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don’t ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

Many people, especially in the U.S., see countries like Sweden or Norway or Finland as role models – we have such a clean energy sector, and so on. That may be true, but we are not role models.

Every citizen has the real right to receive general education and professional training at no cost, something that the United States has not been able to ensure for all its inhabitants.

There’s very little dislike of Americans in the world, shown by repeated polls, and the dissatisfaction – that is, the hatred and the anger – they come from acceptance of American values, not a rejection of them, and recognition that they’re rejected by the U.S. government and by U.S. elites, which does lead to hatred and anger.

I went to Princeton specifically to study physics.

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

America doesn’t have health insurance.

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.

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.

Right now, when we’re hearing so much disturbing and hateful rhetoric, it is so important to remember that our diversity has been – and will always be – our greatest source of strength and pride here in the United States.

Why would anyone steal a shopping cart? It’s like stealing a two-year-old.

No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly.

In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497.

My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.

Illinois surpasses every other spot of equal extent upon the face of the globe in fertility of soil and in the proportionable amount of the same which is sufficiently level for actual cultivation.

It is important that the United States remain a two-party system. I’m a fellow who likes small parties and the Republican Party can’t be too small to suit me.

The United States was seriously defeated in Iraq by Iraqi nationalism – mostly by nonviolent resistance. The United States could kill the insurgents, but they couldn’t deal with half a million people demonstrating in the streets.

This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the population into the richest 20% than remain in the poorest bracket within the decade? You don’t need to imagine it. It’s called the United States of America.

The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control – ‚indoctrination‘, we might say – exercised through the mass media.

David Icke reminded me of Malcolm X.

I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily.

Historical grammar is a study of how, say, modern English developed from Middle English, and how that developed from Early and Old English, and how that developed from Germanic, and that developed from what’s called Proto-Indo-European, a source system that nobody speaks, so you have to try to reconstruct it.

If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.

Obama’s not Jesus. He can’t walk on water.

The Oslo Accords in 1993 determined that the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are a single territorial entity which cannot be divided. Immediately, the United States and Israel set about separating the two and making sure that they would not be united.

In order for the United States to do the right things for the long term, it appears to be helpful for us to have the prospect of humiliation. Sputnik helped us fund good science – really good science: the semiconductor came out of it.

Say ‚Toronto‘ or ‚Ontario,‘ and the immediate thought associations are with a somewhat blander version of North America: a United States with a welfare regime and a more polite street etiquette, and the additionally reassuring visage of Queen Elizabeth on the currency.

The fact is: It’s true what they say about the United States. It is a land of opportunity. It is too various to get bored with it.

I never admire another’s fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.

In the late 1990s, some of the worst terrorist atrocities in the world were what the Turkish government itself called state terror, namely massive atrocities, 80 percent of the arms coming from the United States, millions of refugees, tens of thousands of people killed, hideous repression, that’s international terror, and we can go on and on.

We’ve persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people – a belief that out of the ashes of war, a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we have met our responsibility. Now, it’s time to turn the page.

Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?

My life is not unlike Truman’s. I can’t go anywhere.

If you do a Google search, you will probably read a lot of stuff about how I am someone who wants to kill all the Jews and hates the United States.

The American doctor, in my opinion, possesses a combination of conservatism and that other quality which has put the United States in the forefront in almost every department of science – that is, an eagerness to know what it is really all about in order that he may not be the one left behind if there is something to it.

I am a normal guy from the Black Forest, and I do not compare myself with the geniuses.

Someday, the capitalist system will disappear in the United States, because no social class system has been eternal. One day, class societies will disappear.

Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.