I’ve never seen America as an imperialist or colonialist or meddling country.
Madeleine AlbrightI don’t keep people around me that aren’t family. You don’t get to stay. Unless you’re eating at the table with us, you’re not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.
Lady GagaUnlike my opponent, I will not let oil companies write this country’s energy plan, or endanger our coastlines, or collect another $4 billion in corporate welfare from our taxpayers.
Barack ObamaWe the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.
Abraham LincolnThe fundamental question I believe is, ‚Is political Islam in our best interest?‘ If not, what is our policy to authoritatively support the countervailing forces?
Jim MattisFriendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?
Thomas JeffersonI can’t go out with a Republican.
Madeleine AlbrightNo person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
Alice WalkerCourage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.
Billy GrahamThe purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.
James MadisonI have always hated bowling, and I don’t mind admitting it.
Hunter S. ThompsonMany things shall change in Cuba, but they shall change because of our efforts and despite the United States. Perhaps that empire shall crumble first.
Fidel CastroIn order to rally people, governments need enemies… if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.
Thich Nhat HanhGod knows what we are going through when we grieve, and He wants to assure us of His love and concern. He also wants us to turn to Him and bring our heartaches and burdens to Him.
Billy GrahamThis election is about who’s going to be the next President of the United States!
Dan QuayleMy mom and I have always been there for each other. We had some tough times, but she was always there for me.
LeBron JamesI am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.
Will RogersYou learn that there’s no right way to do it, no wrong way to do it. It’s just what you feel comfortable with, to trust that, and don’t let anybody box you in to a certain style of parenting or make you feel a certain way about what your kids do.
Stephen CurryI certainly know that I would not be able to survive if it were not for the fact that I am being upheld by the prayers of so many people.
Desmond TutuThe 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.
Madeleine AlbrightGood entrepreneurs are community builders, actively involved with their communities and dedicated to the community’s well being. If you’re dedicated to your community, it will be dedicated to you.
Robert KiyosakiI think ‚Invisible‘ is a great song, but I don’t know how accessible it is.
BonoI don’t think I would run for president.
DJ KhaledStand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
Abraham LincolnGovernments are supposed to lie to their citizens.
Noam ChomskyThe most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.
Thomas SowellI neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.
Fidel CastroThe painter who is familiar with the nature of the sinews, muscles, and tendons, will know very well, in giving movement to a limb, how many and which sinews cause it; and which muscle, by swelling, causes the contraction of that sinew; and which sinews, expanded into the thinnest cartilage, surround and support the said muscle.
Leonardo da VinciPlant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.
Jean-Jacques RousseauThe most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help.
Ronald ReaganThe 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.
Will RogersIt’s a good thing we don’t get all the government we pay for.
Will RogersThere are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and there are patriots who supported the war in Iraq. We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America.
Barack ObamaWe have a great group of guys that really sacrifice every night, care about each other, and try to play the right away.
Stephen CurryThe example that America knows how to govern itself is one of the compelling aspects of our national security.
Jim MattisPolitics are a very unsatisfactory game.
Henry AdamsI would not vote for the mayor. It’s not just because he didn’t invite me to dinner, but because on my way into town from the airport there were such enormous potholes.
Fidel CastroI’m so tough and so bad, I can be humble and lift another guy up.
Mr. TIn the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.
Thomas CarlyleI have a reputation for taking on governors a lot more powerful than me.
John KennedyEverybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence.
Frank ZappaOne of the roles of the Presidency is to lead a political party. Having a President in office is usually a huge advantage to a party because it gives the party a mouthpiece and an advocate at the highest level.
John C. MaxwellThere is no gambling like politics.
Benjamin DisraeliI think where political issues invade moral situations, spiritual leaders have to speak out.
Billy GrahamIn framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.
Alexander HamiltonWhen Reagan left office, he was the most unpopular living president, apart from Nixon, even below Carter. If you look at his years in office, he was not particularly popular. He was more or less average. He severely harmed the American economy.
Noam ChomskyIt was the Congress that imposed ‚Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,‘ it was certainly my position, my recommendation to get us out of an even worse outcome that could have occurred.
Colin PowellI’ve said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America!
Harry S. TrumanThe reason that I’m here at all is because of my relationship with my family and their encouragement of me to be a musician and to work hard. As long as I stay there in that space, I can do anything. That’s my truth.
Lady GagaFriends applaud, the comedy is over.
Ludwig van BeethovenThe government of Israel doesn’t like the kinds of things I say, which puts them into the same category as every other government in the world.
Noam ChomskyIf I studied all my life, I couldn’t think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress.
Will RogersI may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.
Winston ChurchillHe that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
Benjamin FranklinEmpire and liberty.
Marcus Tullius CiceroThe thing that motivates me is a very common form of motivation. And that is, with other folks counting on me, it’s so easy to be motivated.
Jeff BezosThe New Deal repudiation of democracy has left the Republican Party alone the guardian of the Ark of the Covenant with its charter of freedom.
Herbert HooverPoliticians love regulating. That’s part of the whole power structure.
Clint EastwoodWar is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.
Carl von ClausewitzThe most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
Henry David Thoreau