Hanging out with politicians and corporations is very unhip work. But I think that the U2 audience have turned out to be incredibly subtle in their understanding.

Most damage that others do us is out of fear, humiliation and pain. Those feelings occur in all of us, not just in those of us who profess a certain religious or racial devotion.

When you’re singing you can hear the echo of people in the audience singing every single word with you, and that was that big dream that I had for myself. It’s happening.

I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

Science is nothing but perception.

Ours is a nation of laws: of citizens who live under them and for the citizens who enforce them. So, to a community in Ferguson that is rightly hurting and looking for answers, let me call once again for us to seek some understanding rather than simply holler at each other. Let’s seek to heal rather than to wound each other.

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them.

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.

Now I am older, I understand we have to accept who we are.

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.

The government of Israel doesn’t like the kinds of things I say, which puts them into the same category as every other government in the world.

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.

God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.

In politics nothing is contemptible.

Many schools include a service project as part of their curriculum, and many corporations have in-house projects for their employees or give them time off to do volunteer work.

Understand: any phenomenon in the world is by nature complex. The people you deal with are equally complex. Any action sets off a limitless chain of reactions. It is never so simple as A leads to B. B will lead to C, D and beyond.

This election is about who’s going to be the next President of the United States!

Everybody is a political person, whether you say something or you are silent. A political attitude is not whether you go to parliament; it’s how you deal with your life, with your surroundings.

When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics.

What you guys want, I’m for.

Every Republican’s voted for it. Look at what they value and look at their budget and what they’re proposing. Romney wants to let the – he said in the first 100 days he’s going to let the big banks once again write their own rules – unchain Wall Street. They’re gonna put y’all back in chains.

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

I would just like to say something, ladies and gentlemen. Something that I think is very important. It is that, you, we – we own this country. We – we own it. It is not you owning it, and not politicians owning it. Politicians are employees of ours.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

I don’t really regard myself as a political figure.

I’m the president of the United States. I’m not the emperor of the United States.

I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.

Meditation is to get insight, to get understanding and compassion, and when you have them, you are compelled to act.

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.

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

Education is hanging around until you’ve caught on.

We need to try to unite audiences, unite countries, join musical tastes, unite people.

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.

At first when I heard about climate change, I was a climate denier. I didn’t think it was happening. Because if there really was an existential crisis like that, that would threaten our civilisation, we wouldn’t be focusing on anything else. That would be our first priority. So I didn’t understand how that added up.

In the political system, we are a team; politics and bureaucracy, we are a team. The politicians, bureaucrats and the people, we are a team.

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 despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.

The Trump phenomenon is in large part a reaction of Middle America to attacks on its values by intellectual and academic communities. There are other reasons, but this is a significant one.

There’s a lot of fuss on the Left about election irregularities, like, you know, the voting machines were tampered with, they didn’t count the votes right, and so on. That’s all accurate and of some importance, but of far more importance is the fact that elections just don’t take place, not in any meaningful sense of the term ‚election.‘

It’s easy being a humorist when you’ve got the whole government working for you.

Kathleen Wynne and her band of radical-left cronies think they have a handle on what constitutes human identity and also what should constitute human morality. And I think that that’s being pushed in a manner in schools that’s completely reprehensible. It’s not education, in my estimation. It’s a form of indoctrination.

There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous.

The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.

Liberal: a power worshipper without power.

It sure is hell to be president.

A gaffe in Washington is someone telling the truth, and telling the truth has never hurt me.

There’s only one person in this race who will be there, who’s always been there for you, and that’s Hillary Clinton’s life story.

If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.

Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do.

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own.

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

War is the continuation of politics by other means.

A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.

I’m completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.

By 1960, the South Africans knew that they were becoming a pariah state.

I became an actress because my mom wanted me to become an actress. It took me until my mid-30s to realize I actually didn’t. I actually wanted to write and direct and be more involved in politics and humanitarian issues.

We can’t have special interests sitting shotgun. We gotta have middle class families up in front. We don’t mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back.