Corruption is one of the most common reasons I hear in views that criticize aid.

There’s no art to find the mind’s construction in the face.

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.

Certainly, if you look at human behavior around the world, you have to admit that we can be very aggressive.

History, a distillation of rumour.

If you judge, investigate.

Although the big word on the left is ‚compassion,‘ the big agenda on the left is dependency.

I shall proceed from the simple to the complex. But in war more than in any other subject we must begin by looking at the nature of the whole; for here more than elsewhere the part and the whole must always be thought of together.

There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.

‚I am‘ is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that ‚I do‘ is the longest sentence?

History should be written as philosophy.

It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.

The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.

Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions.

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.

The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.

We should not look at terrorism from the nameplates – which group they belong to, what is their geographical location, who are the victims. These individual groups or names will keep changing.

In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.

I’ve analyzed the best I can… and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course.

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.

I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.

Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.

Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.

Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.

Some people are making music just for numbers and views.

The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.

I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.

When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man’s concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

The United States has made serious mistakes in the conduct of its foreign affairs, which have had unfortunate repercussions long after the decisions were taken.

Politics… have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Biography lends to death a new terror.

I sleep people. I put people unconscious. I’m stating facts.

We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.

A witty saying proves nothing.

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

I don’t think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times.

Ultimately, a real understanding of history means that we face nothing new under the sun.

The economy’s always been the engine for our national security.

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

Ken Lay, the disgraced former chairman of Enron, found a way to escape his legal problems: He died after being convicted of fraud and conspiracy charges.

There is good and mediocre writing within every genre.

Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent.

Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.

The biggest problem that we have is that California is being run now by special interests. All of the politicians are not anymore making the moves for the people, but for special interests and we have to stop that.

Look at situations from all angles, and you will become more open.

The difference is too nice – Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.

Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts.

Sure, women sportswriters look when they’re in the clubhouse. Read their stories. How else do you explain a capital letter in the middle of a word?

Corruption is a cancer: a cancer that eats away at a citizen’s faith in democracy, diminishes the instinct for innovation and creativity; already-tight national budgets, crowding out important national investments. It wastes the talent of entire generations. It scares away investments and jobs.

It’s clearly a budget. It’s got a lot of numbers in it.

Study men, not historians.

The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.

There’s no doubt that inequality destabilizes societies. I think the social science evidence on that front is crystal clear.

If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.

The point – the power to hurt – of all figures lies in the truthfulness of their application.

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.