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.

What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.

I think politicians really go with the tide.

To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them.

When Hillary served in the Senate, I saw her work day and night as a member of the Armed Services Committee – working with Republicans and Democrats to keep our military strong and protect our troops and their families.

A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.

I want to be just a pure spiritual leader.

When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.

When I look back on what I did for the Left, I’m in a small way quite proud of some of it – I only wish I’d done more.

I do not believe we will have a war with Iran.

I just want people to be the best thems and live the happiest lives possible.

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.

One civilization after another has been wrecked upon the attempt to secure sufficient leadership from a single group or class.

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

The events of October 1962 are widely hailed as Kennedy’s finest hour.

How long will it take the citizens of the United States, one wonders, to recognize that the house their country bombed in Iraq is the same one they were living in until it was foreclosed?

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we’re hardwired not to always think clearly when we’re scared. And the country’s scared.

If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

I have worshipped woman as the living embodiment of the spirit of service and sacrifice.

This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

Many people will have nothing at the end of their working lives.

The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force.

I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy.

Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

At the end of the day, when it comes time to make that decision, as president, all you have to guide you are your values, and your vision, and the life experiences that make you who you are.

Every man should know, if you’re comfortable and you like it, you should do it. Everyone always worries about what the girls think, what the guys think. If you like it, do it.

Every President wants to do right.

I kept a very full diary of my relationship with Nixon, for some strange reason, until he became president.

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

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

We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country.

Whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court he ceases to be your friend.

Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.

To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.

I just think you ought to talk straight with your people.

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.

I always tell people that you should only hire people to be on your team if you would work for them.

The first decade of the twentieth century was not a great time to be born black and poor and female in St. Louis, Missouri, but Vivian Baxter was born black and poor, to black and poor parents. Later she would grow up and be called beautiful. As a grown woman she would be known as the butter-colored lady with the blowback hair.

I have the people behind me and the people are my strength.

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.

In business, if you realize you’ve made a bad decision, you change it.

At 13 years old, I realized I could start my own band. I could write my own song, I could record my own record. I could start my own label. I could release my own record. I could book my own shows. I could write and publish my own fanzine. I could silk-screen my own T-shirt. I could do this all myself.

The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself.

When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it’s the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone’s talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images, devious and prejudicial language, dubious linkages, weak or false ‚intelligence‘ and selected ‚leaks.‘

You want to know whether we’re better off? I’ve got a little bumper sticker for you: Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive. Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive! Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive!

Feminism… I think the simplest explanation, and one that captures the idea, is a song that Marlo Thomas sang, ‚Free to be You and Me.‘

Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.

But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked.

My game is really played above time. I don’t say that like I’m saying I’m ahead of my time. I’m saying, like, if I’m on the court and I throw a pass, the ball that I’ve thrown will lead my teammate right where he needs to go, before he even knows that that’s the right place to go to.

The advice I’ve been giving to people all my life – that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you; you can’t give up politics, it won’t give you up – was the advice I should have been taking myself.

People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.

It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.

It’s empowering to know I am doing something, I am taking a stand, I am disrupting.

By giving people the power to share, we’re making the world more transparent.

I want my fans to love themselves. It’s almost like I want to hypnotize them so when they hear my music they love themselves instantly.

I’ve seen firsthand that being president doesn’t change who you are. It reveals who you are.

Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.

Political chaos is connected with the decay of language… one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.

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