Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.

There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.

Of two evils, choose neither.

When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.

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

I had just as much support from Republicans as I did Democrats when I ran for president. But I should have organized the Democratic Party to get me re-elected.

The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn’t want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass.

If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can’t it get us out?

It’s a good thing we don’t get all the government we pay for.

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.

The Trump phenomenon is in large part a reaction of Middle America to attacks on its values by intellectual and academic communities. There are other reasons, but this is a significant one.

If people wonder, yes, Hillary Clinton is my friend. She has been a friend to me and Barack and Malia and Sasha, and Bill and Chelsea have been embracing and supportive from the very day my husband took the oath of office.

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

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

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.

France had a policy, initiated by General de Gaulle, of trying to turn Europe into what was then called a ‚third force,‘ independent of the two superpowers, so Europe should pursue an independent course.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.

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.

In the ’70s, terrorism was much more serious, in that many more people got killed.

The Spanish Empire eventually collapsed because of its expensive taste for warfare and conquest.

There is no distinctly American criminal class – except Congress.

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.

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

In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

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.

Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship – never.

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

The U.S.S.R. had absolutely nothing to do with the triumph of the Cuban Revolution.

Read about history, and you become aware that nothing starts with us.

Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.

I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat.

Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.

Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning.

The White House is the finest prison in the world.

America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

I believed what my father taught me about the separation of church and state, so when I was President I never invited Billy Graham to have services in the White House because I didn’t think that was appropriate. He was injured a little bit, until I explained it to him.

Stay hungry, stay foolish.

Golf is a good walk spoiled.

You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

There is obviously a gap between the public’s perception of the role of U.S. foreign policy and the elite’s perception.

To understand Europe, you have to be a genius – or French.

If you believe that tax policy has nothing to do with the economy, then you’re pretty much like a rock, only dumber.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

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

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

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.

The revolutionary breakthrough will come with rockets that are fully and rapidly reusable. We will never conquer Mars unless we do that. It’ll be too expensive. The American colonies would never have been pioneered if the ships that crossed the ocean hadn’t been reusable.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

In the past there were people who were not rich but contented with their living style, laughing and happy all day. But when the new rich people appear, people look at them and ask, ‚why don’t I have a life like that too, a beautiful house, car and garden,‘ and they abandon their values.

Liberal: a power worshipper without power.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.

The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.

No body can be healthful without exercise, neither natural body nor politic, and certainly, to a kingdom or estate, a just and honourable war is the true exercise.

The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.

This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

The most talented do not always end up as celebrities, and those with less talent often do. Upsets are written into our history and occur around us every day.

Yup, the whole birther movement was racist.