I like working-class people, generally speaking.

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.

People forget… that we structured it so that the government, or the people, would be repaid with a really good rate of return. And as it turns out, that aspect of TARP, that’s what happened.

In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.

We live in a bewildering world.

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.

The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

The only thing I can say is that I like people; I like human beings with their faults and with their strengths.

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.

What the Pope thinks of being gay does not matter to the world. It matters to the people who like the Pope and follow the Pope… It is not a reflection of all religious people.

Most people are happy being average. Most are happy being faceless in a sea of faces.

If I’m the people’s poet, then I ought to be in people’s hands – and, I hope, in their heart.

If we depend for our happiness on another, on society or on environment, they become essential to us; we cling to them, and any alteration of these we violently oppose because we depend upon them for our psychological security and comfort.

The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.

The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.

On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

In the West, as well as some other parts of the world, the personal sense of ego tends to predominate, whereas in other areas, there is a more collective sense of ego. This collective ego emphasizes the ‚we‘ rather than the ‚I.‘

Humanity I love you because when you’re hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.

It’s rare for anyone to value the opinions of a teenage girl.

If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.

The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.

That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.

Too many of us now tend to worship self indulgence and consumption.

It is pretty ironic that the so-called ‚least advanced‘ people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us, while the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.

Extremely religious, legalistic people have a criticism or judgment about everyone and everything. They just have a way of bringing people down with what they say.

My age is very insignificant to me. I don’t think about it, but the world does. The world likes young people in general.

The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

The Internet didn’t get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together.

The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it.

The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I’m against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth’s surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so.

If you’re not producing as much as you consume, or perhaps a little more, then clearly we cannot use the big organization of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us, and it can’t be of very much use to yourself.

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don’t like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don’t expect freedom to survive very long.

I’m entirely interested in people, and also other creatures and beings, but especially in people, and I tend to read them by emotional field more than anything. So I have a special interest in what they’re thinking and who they are and who’s hiding behind those eyes and how did he get there, and what’s the story, really?

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

Music belongs to the people. To no one else. To no one else.

I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism.

I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.

The more people smoke herb, the more Babylon fall.

We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.

Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights.

Our single most important challenge is therefore to help establish a social order in which the freedom of the individual will truly mean the freedom of the individual.

People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.

People have never looked so ugly as they do today. We just consume far too much.

Children are all foreigners.

People who bowl vote. Bowlers are not the cultural elite.

Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.

Cultures, for better or worse, are very stable.

The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.

We live in an imperfect world, and imperfect people surround us every day.

In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.

Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is harmony in the house; when there is harmony in the house, there is order in the nation; when there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

The society based on production is only productive, not creative.

But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

I think that people are tired. They’re tired of the same old kind of politics. People want a new tone to politics.

Everyone got kind of crazy with me mentioning I was in love with a woman.