I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.

People from North India are generally known to be aggressive and emotional.

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.

In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up – or else we all go down.

Ninety-nine percent of the men and women of the FBI… are just professionals. I don’t want Americans, if an FBI agent knocks on their door, to have to be worried about well, is he a Democrat or a Republican? He’s an FBI agent.

My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die.

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.

We can, for example, be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war or there won’t be a world – at least, a world inhabited by creatures other than bacteria and beetles, with some scattering of others.

Look, when you’re the president, there’s all kinds of things said about us. I mean, it’s just the nature of the job.

In our age there is no such thing as ‚keeping out of politics.‘ All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.

If you’re looking for the safe choice, you shouldn’t be supporting a black guy named Barack Obama to be the next leader of the free world.

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.

It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.

Oh, come, Divine Physician, and bind up every broken bone. Come with Thy sacred nard which Thou hast compounded of Thine own heart’s blood, and lay it home to the wounded conscience and let it feel its power. Oh! Give peace to those whose conscience is like the troubled sea which cannot rest.

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

Immigration laws are the only laws that are discussed in terms of how to help people who break them.

Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don’t care what they say, they like it.

By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It’s too controversial.

When I was president, I announced and I still maintain that I can live with Roe v. Wade. I did everything I possibly could as president under that ruling, which I don’t think ought to be changed, to minimize the need for abortions. I think every abortion is a result of a horrible series of errors on the part of people involved.

There’s no such thing as going to a soapbox and saying, ‚The government’s corrupt,‘ and not having the intelligence service see your face. In the digital world, that can be done.

I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.

I found that the corridors of power in Delhi were littered with lobbies of various kinds.

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

I am making a collection of the things my opponents have found me to be and, when this election is over, I am going to open a museum and put them on display.

I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world.

Government actually grew during the Reagan years.

A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.

It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn’t be here. It’d still be waiting for an environmental impact statement.

Personally, I’d like to see more of our leaders take a technocratic approach to solving our biggest problems.

I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.

In a higher phase of communist society… only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.

We have observed that, in society and the world in which we live, selfishness has increased more than love for others, and that men of good will must work, each with his own strengths and expertise, to ensure that love for others increases until it is equal and possibly exceeds love for oneself.

Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.

I used to wonder if it was God’s plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world.

Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.

Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.

No man should be in politics unless he would honestly rather not be there.

If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied.

Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.

I don’t see any possibility of Britain and the U.S. allowing a sovereign independent Iraq; that’s almost inconceivable.

Empire and liberty.

When the President does it, that means that it’s not illegal.

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who’ll get the blame.

In many ways, when you’re a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society.

There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.

We all hoped in 2001 that we could put in place an Afghan government under President Karzai that would be able to control the country, make sure al-Qaeda didn’t come back, and make sure the Taliban wasn’t resurging. It didn’t work out.

Only the aspirants for president are fool enough to believe what they read in the newspapers.

The trouble with Nixon is that he’s a serious politics junkie. He’s totally hooked and like any other junkie, he’s a bummer to have around, especially as President.

I think the first duty of society is justice.

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

As president, I’m committed to making Washington work better and rebuilding the trust of the people who sent us here.

Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.

Unless your government is respectable, foreigners will invade your rights; and to maintain tranquillity, it must be respectable – even to observe neutrality, you must have a strong government.

Many things shall change in Cuba, but they shall change because of our efforts and despite the United States. Perhaps that empire shall crumble first.

Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.