I think America has always been polarized.

There’s no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.

Hillary doesn’t play. She has more experience and exposure to the presidency than any candidate in our lifetime – yes, more than Barack, more than Bill. So she is absolutely ready to be Commander-in-Chief on day one. And, yes, she happens to be a woman.

Everybody looks like clones and the only people you notice are my age. I don’t notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.

Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do.

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.

All the United States, it is a society that is split like to the bottom, that had very poor people in the country that is one of the wealthiest countries.

This election is about who’s going to be the next President of the United States!

I would remind you the lesser of two socialists is still a socialist.

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 there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.

That fatal drollery called a representative government.

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.

With Benghazi, I don’t see anyone saying, ‚Hey look, I am overall responsible for this and therefore, I take responsibility for what happened. It’s my fault.‘ I haven’t heard that yet. Meanwhile, the other side of the coin, the Osama bin Laden raid, it seems everyone made that decision, and that’s just unbelievable to me.

It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.

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

In 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.

When I was 18, I went to the Soviet Union. I kept hearing that America was planning to bomb them – lots of bombs were going to come down on these people. I went there not knowing anything, except that I thought the whole thing was stupid and that I wanted to see who these people were that we were going to bomb.

Why should man’s first flight to the moon be a matter of national competition? Why should the United States and the Soviet Union, in preparing for such expeditions, become involved in immense duplications of research, construction and expenditure?

I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.

In the United States, one of the main topics of academic political science is the study of attitudes and policy and their correlation. The study of attitudes is reasonably easy in the United States: heavily-polled society, pretty serious and accurate polls, and policy you can see, and you can compare them.

I’m not a politician. And I don’t want to be.

When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man.

Politics is 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.

The United States strongly seeks a lasting agreement for the discontinuance of nuclear weapons tests. We believe that this would be an important step toward reduction of international tensions and would open the way to further agreement on substantial measures of disarmament.

War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.

Governments are not representative. They have their own power, serving segments of the population that are dominant and rich.

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

America is not nearly done. We’re only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows… what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants – if they survive that long – will see.

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.

Mitt Romney subscribes to the cynical logic that says the American dream belongs to some of us but not all of us.

In America there’s no way I can make the kind of movie I like to make.

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.

The United States never stopped conspiring against the Arab world, which holds the largest oil reserves on the planet.

When I came to Johannesburg from the countryside, I knew nobody, but many strangers were very kind to me. I then was dragged into politics, and then, subsequently, I became a lawyer.

Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within it.

As individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned when I see what’s happening in our country, which is in many ways the luckiest place in the world. We don’t seem to be excited about making our country a better place for our kids.

But do I think that our actions in anyway violate the War Powers Resolution, the answer is no.

Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.

I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem – and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.

If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.

The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

It 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.

We know that the nation that goes all-in on innovation today will own the global economy tomorrow. This is an edge America cannot surrender.

In countries where innocent people are dying, the leaders are following their blood rather than their brains.

Let it be our delight to find our society in the circle of which Jesus is the center, and let us make those our friends who are the friends of Jesus.

I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics are not so far apart in America. They are both a means to the same end, which is victory… And why not? Victory is good for you, and don’t let anybody tell you different.

I think big business is a terrible thing for the spirit of the country, as our spirit is the best thing about us.

Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.

I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

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

America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

I almost laughed about the Machiavellian plans of the presidents of the United States.

Even if the politics needed doesn’t exist today, we still need to use our voices to make sure that the people in power are focused on the right things. Because this is a democracy, and in a democracy, people are the ones who run the country.

Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning.

The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.

I think that slavery is wrong, morally, socially and politically. I desire that it should be no further spread in these United States, and I should not object if it should gradually terminate in the whole Union.

In many ways, when you’re a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society.