I really don’t like women who try to be men. All these politicians, I think they’re horrendous. We could have a brilliant future, but we have this terrible male vision of destroying everything. They’d better sort themselves out and become more womanly.

Rude people will now & then ask me why I think I know so much about Politics. I tell them it’s because I’m Smart… But that is a lie: The real reason is because I’m an incurable Gambling addict.

In our age there is no such thing as ‚keeping out of politics.‘ All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.

Politicians love regulating. That’s part of the whole power structure.

Fortunately, we have help from the media. I have to say this: I’m very grateful for the support and kindness that we’ve gotten. People have respected their privacy and in that way, I think, you know, no matter what people may feel about my husband’s policies or what have you, they care about children and that’s been good to see.

What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.

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

Although I don’t have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility to give back to society in a very significant way.

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?

Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals.

I am a Christian and a Democrat, that’s all.

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves – and the better the teacher, the better the student body.

I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.

‚Fahrenheit 451‘ postulates a lot of things I didn’t want to have happen.

I have been a firm believer in the federal structure of our country as enshrined in the Constitution.

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.

Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.

Governments are supposed to lie to their citizens.

The issues a president faces are not black and white, and cannot be boiled down into 140 characters. Because when you have the nuclear codes at your fingertips and the military at your command, you can’t make snap decisions. You can’t have a thin skin or the tendency to lash out.

I started out in anthropology, so to me how society works, how people put themselves together and make things work, has always been a big interest.

By most accounts, Aristide is the most popular figure in Haiti.

The problem is when that fun stuff becomes the habit. And I think that’s what’s happened in our culture. Fast food has become the everyday meal.

The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.

Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.

Liberals are not always so liberal with people who disapprove – disapprove of their point of view.

We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.

People always say when they meet me that I’m not what they expect. I assume they think I’m this super dark and depressing guy, but I like to channel all of those emotions into my work.

Many people, including some conservatives, have been very impressed with how brainy the president and his advisers are. But that is not quite as reassuring as it might seem.

I think our politicians could learn a lot from Mandela.

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.

If people lose faith in their government, the result is the same whether or not the loss of confidence is justified.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

People do dismiss ambient music, don’t they? They call it ‚easy listening,‘ as if to suggest that it should be hard to listen to.

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.

I have never thought it necessary to patronize the American people.

All people are born alike – except Republicans and Democrats.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.

Winning the election is a good-news, bad-news kind of thing. Okay, now you’re the mayor. The bad news is, now you’re the mayor.

Excessive literary production is a social offense.

If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.

Much publishing is done through politics, friends, and natural stupidity.

We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.

In Japan, the writers have made up a literary community, a circle, a society. I think 90 percent of Japan’s writers live in Tokyo. Naturally, they make a community. There are groups and customs, and so they are tied up in a way.

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

If you’re embarrassed because you have some notion about how men are supposed to behave, and it doesn’t include weeping, then you have some personal work to do.

It’s been my experience in politics that you can try and plan it out: ‚I’m going to hit the three ball which will hit the eight ball.‘ You’ve just got to go run and try to do everything right. And then have a little luck.

We do stigmatise teens a lot and see them as scary and alien.

I’ll assure you this: I will have nothing to do with politics.

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.

I do have a vulnerable side. I think a lot of people have a misperception of me. They only see the tough, defensive, aggressive side. But every woman is vulnerable.

Obamacare sucks, it can’t be fixed.

We need an adult in the White House. When making life-or-death, war-or-peace decisions, a president can’t just pop off or lash out irrationally.

When Reagan left office, he was the most unpopular living president, apart from Nixon, even below Carter. If you look at his years in office, he was not particularly popular. He was more or less average. He severely harmed the American economy.

Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome.