I know black people love the idea that we finally have a beautiful, good-looking black president. But if he is doing awful things to us, we should wake up.

I know why we’re strong. I know why we have held together; I know why we are united: it’s because there’s always been a growing middle class.

Ronald Reagan used to alarm other constituencies by speaking freely about the End Times foreshadowed in the Bible.

Together, we can help make sure that every family that walks into a restaurant can make an easy, healthy choice.

The day-to-day making of policy is arguing all the time. You’re trying to get the right approach and the right answer, and there are moments that aren’t very pleasant. But in the end, you look at the overall product.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all do more to put the fire out. We’re standing around with watering cans, when what we really need is the fire brigade.

Yup, the whole birther movement was racist.

Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.

I am a Christian and a Democrat, that’s all.

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.

When all is said and done, what constitutes the impregnable superiority of Christianity over all other types of Faith is that it is ever more consciously identified with a Christogenesis: in other words, with an awareness of the rise of a certain universal Presence which is at once immortalizing and unifying.

That government is best which governs least.

Nobody is above the law. Imagine if there allegations against Modi and he is the Prime Minister. Should the case not be pursued just because he has become the PM. It should not be so that it should be stopped. I am not above the law.

In whatever adulation you get, there’s truth and there’s not truth. And wherever they dog you, and they say it was horrible – there’s truth and there’s not truth. It’s human nature to like to read the adulation more.

Most people have the opportunity of a lifetime flash right in front of them, and they fail to see it. A year later, they find out about it, after everyone else got rich.

King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.

When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should know how it’s done so I would recognise when I was being lied to.

There might be some serious fun in politics.

If you’re sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign.

I have been on the road and visited numerous places and met people from all over the globe. I can say that it looks nearly the same everywhere I have been: The climate crisis is ignored by people in charge, despite the science being crystal clear.

People who don’t like my work say that the connections seem too arbitrary. But that’s how life is.

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.

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 say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.

By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

I am certainly not politically affiliated with Mr. Obama.

The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.

For a sitting U.S. president to see our allies as freeloaders is nuts.

Remember, it is not about voting for the perfect candidate – there is no such thing. Presidents are human.

I don’t think consensus-building politics is what I’m meant to be doing.

Democracy don’t rule the world, You’d better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that’s better left unsaid.

Politics is the womb in which war develops.

I think the 24-hour news cycle has helped exaggerate the differences between the parties. You can always find someone on TV somewhere carping about something. That didn’t happen 20 years ago.

There’s no political point worth my son’s life.

If the Soviet Union let another political party come into existence, they would still be a one-party state, because everybody would join the other party.

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.

It’s hard to wrap my head around the fact that there are people who can’t or won’t see what Black Lives Matter is trying to accomplish.

The ‚peace movement‘ exists only in the fantasies of the paranoid.

In order to have your voice be heard in Washington, you have to make some little contribution.

Latinos are Republican. They just don’t know it yet.

Ronald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they’d both unite against an invasion from Mars.

I’ve analyzed the best I can… and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course.

Life tends to be an accumulation of a lot of mundane decisions, which often gets ignored.

I’ve never seen America as an imperialist or colonialist or meddling country.

I just genuinely feel that that’s what you do when you’re an artist: You stick up for the people around you.

I have spoken about inflation, unemployment, farmers‘ problems, security, etc. I keep talking about these issues. I seek answers from the Indian government.

Stay active. Read the Word. Worship with other believers. Continue to give. Keep learning and growing. Your faith will be unleashed!

Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.

It’s impossible, I think, however much I’d become disillusioned politically or evolve into a post-political person, I don’t think I’d ever change my view that socialism is the best political moment humans have ever come up with.

To gather with God’s people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

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.

Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.

I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.

Richard Nixon was an evil man – evil in a way that only those who believe in the physical reality of the Devil can understand it. He was utterly without ethics or morals or any bedrock sense of decency.

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

It is difficult to violently suppress people in the long run, as the example of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries has shown.

The public is strongly in favor of the Kyoto Protocols, so strongly in favor that a majority of Bush voters thought that he was in favor of it. They are simply unaware.

I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?