Fidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he stood up to the United States.

I am often asked if, when I was secretary, I had problems with foreign men. That is not who I had problems with, because I arrived in a very large plane that said United States of America. I had more problems with the men in our own government.

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.

To our brothers in Latin America and the world, we must convey that the Cuban people will overcome.

I just use fashion as an excuse to talk about politics. Because I’m a fashion designer, it gives me a voice, which is really good.

Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.

I have never really thought that the Left was much in ‚array‘ as far as political purposes were concerned.

Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.

Greece has been, in many ways, a partially dysfunctional society. For example, the wealthy barely pay taxes… to an extent, that’s true elsewhere, including the United States, but it’s been pretty extreme in Greece.

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

A good Catholic meddles in politics, offering the best of himself, so that those who govern can govern. But what is the best that we can offer to those who govern? Prayer!

Free government is the most difficult of all government. But it is everlastingly true that the plain people will make fewer mistakes than any other group of men, no matter how powerful.

The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes.

I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.

Passion is needed for any great work, and for the revolution, passion and audacity are required in big doses.

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

I have considered voting Conservative because I am so against the Labour party.

I can hear you, the rest of the world can hear you and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.

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.

I believe that Catholics involved in politics carry the values of their religion within them, but have the mature awareness and expertise to implement them. The Church will never go beyond its task of expressing and disseminating its values, at least as long as I’m here.

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

Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.

It’s actually very easy for democracy to disappear.

Hate crime is not new in the United States.

Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.

No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.

It’s nice to say let’s be bipartisan. But we’re a partisan nation. We were raised as a partisan nation.

I just didn’t want to get out there anymore; I didn’t want to get back into what I call ‚the swamp.‘ And the other reason why is I don’t think it’s good for the presidency for a former president to be opining about his successor. President Obama’s got plenty of critics – and I’m just not gonna be one.

Senator McCain is Israel’s most unconditional ally in Mossad’s machinations, something that even his worst adversaries would have been able to imagine. McCain participated alongside this secret service in the creation of the Islamic State, which has appropriated a considerable part of Iraq as well as a third of Syria, according to its affirmations.

Nobody wants to put the creditworthiness of the United States in jeopardy. Nobody wants to see the United States default. So we’ve got to seize this moment, and we have to seize it soon.

Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.

Muhammad Ali is a legend, a hero of mine.

There is not a liberal America and a conservative America – there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America – there’s the United States of America.

I don’t usually admire Sarah Palin, but when she was making fun of this ‚hopey changey stuff,‘ she was right: there was nothing there.

I don’t write policy for my government.

The United States is afraid of China; it is not a military threat to anyone and is the least aggressive of all the major military powers.

Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.

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

Politically, the world is so confused right now – there’s so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.

John F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occupies the minds of the few but brings danger to the many.

If you’re in business or politics, you need to have an intense understanding of what’s going on around you.

Even if soccer is not number one in the United States, they do things very well here. There’s much our country can learn from the U.S.A., because we all know that soccer is not the main game in India. We can still do more things, like provide better facilities for the players so they can perform well.

I know Gov. Christie. We’ve met a couple of times.

A candidate is not going to suddenly change once they get into office. Just the opposite, in fact. Because the minute that individual takes that oath, they are under the hottest, harshest light there is. And there is no way to hide who they really are.

In the spring of 1929, I returned to the United States. I was homesick for this country. I had learned in my student days a great deal about the new physics. I wanted to pursue this myself, to explain it, and to foster its cultivation.

The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are in the right, for nothing has yet happened.

Nothing could make me forget what the Reagan years had actually been like.

Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert.

Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion.

Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.

I personally never expected anything of Obama, and wrote about it before the 2008 primaries. I thought it was smoke and mirrors.

If you do a Google search, you will probably read a lot of stuff about how I am someone who wants to kill all the Jews and hates the United States.

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

In general, I think, U.S. policies remain constant, going back to the Second World War. But the capacity to implement them is declining.

Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It’s the other way around. They never vote for us.

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what’s going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?