I really don’t like women who try to be men. All these politicians, I think they’re horrendous. We could have a brilliant future, but we have this terrible male vision of destroying everything. They’d better sort themselves out and become more womanly.

Society therefore is as ancient as the world.

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

The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It’s the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.

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.

Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.

I’m not a conservative of any kind.

Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.

You can’t just have slogans, you can’t just have catchy phrases. You have to have an agenda. And I think what the Republican Party has to do, if it’s going to incorporate the tea party efforts in it, is to come up with an agenda that the American people can see, touch, and actually believe in, and something they believe in.

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

The thought of being President frightens me and I do not think I want the job.

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

‚Fahrenheit 451‘ postulates a lot of things I didn’t want to have happen.

The Iranian government is undoubtedly a severe danger to its own population, but not beyond that.

Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

I stay out of politics because if I begin thinking too much about politics, I’ll probably… drop writing children’s books and become a political cartoonist again.

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what’s going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?

No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.

You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.

That fatal drollery called a representative government.

The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.

There is obviously a gap between the public’s perception of the role of U.S. foreign policy and the elite’s perception.

Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.

I never leaf through a copy of National Geographic without realizing how lucky we are to live in a society where it is traditional to wear clothes.

I have something in common with Nazis in that I am opposed to the radical Left. And when you oppose the radical Left, you end up being a part of a much larger group that includes Nazis in it.

Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.

Government’s first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.

It isn’t generally the case that liberals dominate entire hierarchies. That isn’t generally how it works, because the hierarchies are usually set up so that conservatives fill up the hierarchies; it’s in the nature of hierarchy.

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.

The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.

The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.

Free government is the most difficult of all government. But it is everlastingly true that the plain people will make fewer mistakes than any other group of men, no matter how powerful.

Since I’m the president and Democrats have controlled the House and the Senate, it’s understandable that people are saying, you know, ‚What have you done?‘

I’m highly political. I spend an awful lot of time in the U.S. trying to influence decision-makers. But I don’t feel in tune with British politics.

In my country we go to prison first and then become President.

Morality arose largely as an empirical defence of the individual and society. Ever since intelligent beings began to be in contact, and consequently in friction, they have felt the need to guard themselves against each other’s encroachments.

Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.

It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.

I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong.

When you are president, being able to clearly articulate detailed plans to help the people of this country is a good thing. Knowing what you’re doing is a good thing. And let me tell you, Hillary Clinton absolutely knows what she’s doing.

In Germany, they all thought I was a bit mental, very emotional.

The mainstream is always under attack.

I loved being Secretary of State, that’s probably evident to everyone who watched me.

I do have a political agenda. It’s to have as few regulations as possible.

I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat.

War is a way of shattering to pieces… materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and… too intelligent.

Every country is like a particular type of person. America is like a belligerent, adolescent boy; Canada is like an intelligent, 35-year-old woman. Australia is like Jack Nicholson. It comes right up to you and laughs very hard in your face in a highly threatening and engaging manner.

Liberal: a power worshipper without power.

Romney and Ryan would do a much better job running the country, and that’s what everybody needs to know.

I think one of the great things about the United States has been our ability to maintain a distinction between our military and domestic law enforcement.

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.

I guess you’d call me an independent, since I’ve never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label.

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

Since I have come to America, I am often asked whether my next novel will be set in America. I don’t think it will. I think I will be living in America for some time to come, but while living in America, I would like to write about Japanese society from the outside.

The label ‚liberal‘ or ‚conservative,‘ any – every time I hear that, I think of the great Gilbert and Sullivan song from ‚Iolanthe.‘ It goes, ‚Every gal and every boy that’s born alive is either a little liberal or else a little conservative.‘ What do those labels mean? It depends on whose ox is being gored.

Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.

I’ve never bought into any sort of hard and fast, this-box/that-box characterization. People are individuals. Yes, they may be expected to be a particular way. But that doesn’t mean they’re going to be that way.

War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.