For 18 years I have resisted talking about current events. I am not going to start now.

I do not deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I have any love of violence. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after many years of tyranny, exploitation and oppression of my people by the whites.

It’s amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper.

We’re news junkies in my house.

Our whole life is set up in the path of least resistance. We don’t want to suffer. We don’t want to feel discomfort. So the whole time, we’re living our lives in a very comfortable area. There’s no growth in that.

I don’t follow politics much.

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.

I truly believe that when the history books are written, our age will be remembered for three things: the war on terror, the digital revolution, and what we did – or did not do – to put the fire out in Africa. History, like God, is watching what we do.

If a projectile were deprived of the force of gravity, it would not be deflected toward the earth but would go off in a straight line into the heavens and do so with uniform motion, provided that the resistance of the air were removed.

Cuba has become a symbol of courageous resistance to attack. Since 1959, Cuba has been under attack from the hemispheric superpower.

It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.

The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.

I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.

In a summer marked by instability in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, I know the world also took notice of the small American city of Ferguson, Missouri – where a young man was killed, and a community was divided. So yes, we have our own racial and ethnic tensions.

I’ve proved to be as difficult to convert as I am to hypnotize.

I hope I didn’t bore you too much with my life story.

The most violent show on TV is the six o’clock news.

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

I’d always tried to resist playing the supervirility thing. I liked showing the vulnerability of age.

I think I write in a fairly self-confident manner.

I think many people in my community had very different kinds of mothers: they had mothers who acquiesced in the system of male and white-supremacist domination, and my mother never did. She just could not do it. It just wasn’t in her.

I can’t read the newspaper without crying. I’m easily affected by horrible events, you see.

Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.

September 11 shocked many Americans into an awareness that they had better pay much closer attention to what the U.S. government does in the world and how it is perceived. Many issues have been opened for discussion that were not on the agenda before. That’s all to the good.

Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It’s so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference.

There’s a lot of revisionist history that goes on these days about Iraq.

In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.

Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root.

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!

The last person I have ever criticized is an official. They have a tough job to do. Things are happening so quick.

The Soviet Union, the socialist camp, the People’s Republic of China, and North Korea helped us resist, with essential supplies and weapons, the implacable blockade of the United States, the most powerful empire ever to exist.

The lies of the empire and the treason of the quislings shall be defeated.

Solidarity is an attitude of resistance, I suppose, or it should be.

I am well aware that there are prisoners of conscience in the Soviet Union, including some who have said they have chosen to resist the law because of religious reasons.

Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it… I can resist everything but temptation.

The world is too violent right now.

You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.

Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.

If you’re too free, you’re like the way Hong Kong is now. It’s very chaotic.

The very phrase ‚foreign affairs‘ makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.

The U.S. couldn’t even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They’ll be killing each other again in less than a year. I’m sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits.

I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.

Peoples do not defy repression and death, nor do they remain for nights on end protesting energetically, just because of merely formal matters.

We live in ugly times.

Weight, force and casual impulse, together with resistance, are the four external powers in which all the visible actions of mortals have their being and their end.

All impeachments, I guess, are political.

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

I had a lot of resistance, and not just to fame. I was always conscious of not changing.

Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.

From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard.

I go on The Daily Beast. The Daily Beast is one of the websites that I check out.

I pay attention to politics and technology.

But more than anything else, for the British folks Irish people were all terrorists. So when we went to Britain, it was always a lot of resistance to U2. And that’s why we came to America.

I don’t even know what the issues are. I haven’t paid attention to politics in a long time. It’s actually not something that I really even enjoy. It’s way off my radar.

I’m not a reality-TV kind of guy. But it’s almost like we’re living in a reality show. Every day in this country, everybody keeps worrying about the deterioration of America, and it’s like a big reality show.

Experience acquired in the heroic battle against Batista’s tyranny showed that the enemy, no matter what his strength, could not defeat the Cuban people.

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

I’m mainstream.