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

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

It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.

I got no quarrel with them Vietcong.

There is obviously a gap between the public’s perception of the role of U.S. foreign policy and the elite’s perception.

There’s not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.

I think, under President Obama, who was a really bright guy – I didn’t agree with a lot of his politics – but we got to the point internationally where our friends didn’t trust us. They were confused. And our enemies didn’t quite respect us.

For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.

Turkey must find its place if, of course, it can heal its internal sores, and none is more malignant than the perennial Kurdish issue.

Meditation is not to avoid society; it is to look deep to have the kind of insight you need to take action. To think that it is just to sit down and enjoy the calm and peace, is wrong.

The momentum of freedom in our world is unmistakable – and it is not carried forward by our power alone. We can trust in that greater power Who guides the unfolding of the years. And in all that is to come, we can know that His purposes are just and true.

The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

Often one postulates that a priori, all states are equally probable. This is not true in the world as we see it. This world is not correctly described by the physics which assumes this postulate.

I would not vote for the mayor. It’s not just because he didn’t invite me to dinner, but because on my way into town from the airport there were such enormous potholes.

Trump has no sense of shame.

Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Lincoln said you cannot be President without spending some item on your knees. I have repeated that and a bunch of Atheists got all over me. Wait a minute. Does that mean that you cannot be President if you are an Atheist? I say yea that does mean that.

It’s been my experience in politics that you can try and plan it out: ‚I’m going to hit the three ball which will hit the eight ball.‘ You’ve just got to go run and try to do everything right. And then have a little luck.

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

Cassius Clay is a name that white people gave to my slave master. Now that I am free, that I don’t belong anymore to anyone, that I’m not a slave anymore, I gave back their white name, and I chose a beautiful African one.

Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf.

The difference between a Republican and a Democrat is the Democrat is a cannibal they have to live off each other, while the Republicans, why, they live off the Democrats.

We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.

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.

The world is not flat, and PCs are not, in the hierarchy of human needs, in the first five rungs.

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

Rebellion is what you make of it. When you’ve been on a tour bus for two months straight, and then you get in your car and drive wherever you want, that can feel rebellious.

The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free.

I am the freest author in the world.

There will be no whitewash in the White House.

I perhaps ought to say that individually I never was much interested in the Texas question. I never could see much good to come of annexation, inasmuch as they were already a free republican people on our own model.

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

The magic of America is that we’re a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.

I wish I could say to all those people who consider themselves anarchists or radicals: Please join the nonviolent movement. This is how Gandhi freed India. If Gandhi freed India, we can certainly free the United States from our racism, misogyny, and bigotry.

Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.

The artist part of me always wants to be appreciated. I read every review. But I never wanted to seek validation by awards or anything controlled by politics.

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.

I don’t think I would run for president.

I just think people should invest in the world. Don’t invest in fashion, but invest in the world.

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

I’m going to stay active as long as I can politically, and with the Carter Center primarily, and if I’m able mentally and physically, will continue to be quite active.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa’s leading organization – and I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think.

There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors… I mean it.

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

I remember coming to New York in 1974 to do a play here called ‚Equis.‘ And I remember the first morning getting up and walking around the streets, and I thought, ‚I’m home.‘ I felt really at peace here.

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

You do the policy, I’ll do the politics.

When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government – that is despotism.

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.

All I’m for is the liberty of the individual.

Music has the power to inspire the world.

In politics nothing is contemptible.

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.

Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.

I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace.

Not everybody is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is.

Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and serenity.

To live is to find out for yourself what is true, and you can do this only when there is freedom, when there is continuous revolution inwardly, within yourself.