I pay attention to politics and technology.

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

The example that America knows how to govern itself is one of the compelling aspects of our national security.

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

I’m not a reality-TV kind of guy. But it’s almost like we’re living in a reality show. Every day in this country, everybody keeps worrying about the deterioration of America, and it’s like a big reality show.

It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it… anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

War is the continuation of politics by other means.

Senator McCain is Israel’s most unconditional ally in Mossad’s machinations, something that even his worst adversaries would have been able to imagine. McCain participated alongside this secret service in the creation of the Islamic State, which has appropriated a considerable part of Iraq as well as a third of Syria, according to its affirmations.

History reminds us that dictators and despots arise during times of severe economic crisis.

In the end, that’s what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

I think – I don’t know, maybe it’s nostalgia. But the choice, losing the choice to be able to use film is going to be – it’s gone. It’s going to be gone.

It is definitely true that the fundamental enabling technology for electric cars is lithium-ion as a cell chemistry technology. In the absence of that, I don’t think it’s possible to make an electric car that is competitive with a gasoline car.

While I have never learned to use a computer, I am surrounded by family and friends who carry information to me from blogs, Facebook, Twitter, and various websites.

There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.

I don’t have a computer. A computer’s a typewriter. I already have a typewriter.

Most people have no idea what something would sound like if it wasn’t an MP3.

It is hard to read a newspaper or watch a television newscast without encountering someone who has come up with a new ‚solution‘ to society’s ‚problems.‘

An individual’s refusal to carry out the criminal acts of his government sets the stage, in the most effective way possible, for the attempt to demonstrate the criminal nature of these acts.

I was an Eisenhower Republican when I started out at 21 because he promised to get us out of the Korean War.

Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.

Corruption is a cancer: a cancer that eats away at a citizen’s faith in democracy, diminishes the instinct for innovation and creativity; already-tight national budgets, crowding out important national investments. It wastes the talent of entire generations. It scares away investments and jobs.

Part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians, poets, and artists, and zoologists, and historians. They also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world. But if it hadn’t been computer science, these people would have been doing amazing things in other fields.

Politics is a noble activity. We should revalue it, practise it with vocation and a dedication that requires testimony, martyrdom, that is to die for the common good.

Honestly, I think we should be delighted people still want to read, be it on a Kindle or a Nook or whatever the latest device is.

Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.

I’m an inventor.

Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs.

No fundamental social change occurs merely because government acts. It’s because civil society, the conscience of a country, begins to rise up and demand – demand – demand change.

I’m a singer, not a politician, and I think you don’t want the two to get confused. It’s not OK to be on CNN talking about people starving and then tell the interviewer that your new album is coming out in six months.

A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.

Facebook are an amazing team, a brilliant team. It’s a technology that brings people together.

Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.

The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.

That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.

It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business.

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.

Young people can create beautiful things.

Necessity… the mother of invention.

Our goal is to make the best devices in the world, not to be the biggest.

About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation.

My son Emilio is running for Congress to continue the fight for social justice.

Flying cars are not a very efficient way to move things from one point to another.

I think a lot of the time there isn’t such a black-and-white difference between what’s a platform and what’s an app. It’s really just like the most important apps become platforms.

I have been very happy in the House of Representatives.

To create a new standard, it takes something that’s not just a little bit different; it takes something that’s really new and really captures people’s imagination, and the Macintosh, of all the machines I’ve ever seen, is the only one that meets that standard.

Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

Technology is nothing. What’s important is that you have a faith in people, that they’re basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they’ll do wonderful things with them.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

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

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

An idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.

I personally never expected anything of Obama, and wrote about it before the 2008 primaries. I thought it was smoke and mirrors.

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

In my opinion eight years as president is enough and sometimes too much for any man to serve in that capacity.

The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.

I’m often accused of being ahead of my time, but it’s simply not true. The truth is that everybody else is behind.

The wealth of information now available at the click of a finger amazes me.

Connectivity is a human right.