Even after Independence, we have had to face the poison of casteism and communalism. How long these evils will continue? Whom does it benefit?

Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all do more to put the fire out. We’re standing around with watering cans, when what we really need is the fire brigade.

What I really want to say: That what the world really needs is a real feeling of kinship. Everybody: stars, laborers, Negroes, Jews, Arabs. We are all brothers.

Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.

What someone else does or doesn’t do has no effect on me and what I do.

I feel like the way I was raised was to be able to see through all the titles in this world – from religion to race.

Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root.

I’m the only president you’ve got.

The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

India can live without nuclear weapons. That’s our dream, and it should be the dream of the U.S. also.

There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we’d all love one another.

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

Sometimes it’s a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.

My son Emilio is running for Congress to continue the fight for social justice.

Isn’t it amazing that we are all made in God’s image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?

Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.

Before I became a chief minister, I never thought that one day I’d be the chief minister.

There might be some serious fun in politics.

One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring.

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.

A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.

When the rich wage war, it’s the poor who die.

Work alone is noble.

The country has come a long way in race relations, but the pendulum swings so far back. Everyone wants to be so sensitive.

I don’t think generally politician come from democratic country. I think not that thinking. But sometimes little bit short-sighted. They are mainly looking for their next vote.

I have Muslim members of my family. I have lived in Muslim countries.

The lessons of history would suggest that civilisations move in cycles. You can track that back quite far – the Babylonians, the Sumerians, followed by the Egyptians, the Romans, China. We’re obviously in a very upward cycle right now, and hopefully that remains the case. But it may not.

When I was a young kid, I did not even dream about playing for my country. It was such a farfetched thing to play for India.

People are generally proud of their food. A willingness to eat and drink with people without fear and prejudice… they open up to you in ways that somebody visiting who is driven by a story may not get.

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.

My wife told me if there is any rumors about me, it better be about politics and not about my social life.

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness, not by each other’s misery.

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

For all who love freedom and peace, the world without Saddam Hussein’s regime is a better and safer place.

It’s always going to be a fight for anyone who isn’t an older white man. I want to fight for anyone who doesn’t have a fight.

As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.

Growing up, I decided, a long time ago, I wouldn’t accept any manmade differences between human beings, differences made at somebody else’s insistence or someone else’s whim or convenience.

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

I found it hard to be young. When I was married in my twenties, I hated being regarded as ‚the little wife.‘ You don’t know what it was like then! I’d never even written a cheque. I had to ask my husband for money for groceries.

Frustration is a sign I am acting independently. The more you try your own way, the tighter the doors will stay closed.

A woman can’t be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can’t do it by herself.

I don’t kiss nobody’s butt.

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.

I think big business is a terrible thing for the spirit of the country, as our spirit is the best thing about us.

Let us remember we are all part of one American family. We are united in common values, and that includes belief in equality under the law, basic respect for public order, and the right of peaceful protest.

The diversity of India, of our civilization, is actually a thing of beauty, which is something we are extremely proud of.

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

Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.

Why, if someone is good in one field can they not be accepted or given the slightest opportunity to express and be creative in other fields?

Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks it’s a subject below their social standing.

The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I’m against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.

The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.

Be nice to the whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.

The example that America knows how to govern itself is one of the compelling aspects of our national security.

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

Well, when you come down to it, I don’t see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?

So many killings of black men in my lifetime. The physical shock is astounding.

Don’t be dependent. At all. Ever. Period.

People who truly understand what is meant by self-reliance know they must live their lives by ethics rather than rules.

A riot is the language of the unheard.