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

Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.

I love being in the United States Senate.

The people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world.

‚Hope and change‘ has become a cliche in our nation, and it is daunting to think that any American could hope for change from what God has blessed.

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.

Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.

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

I think, in politics, half the people are gonna like you, and half the people are not gonna like you, no matter what you do or what you say… It’s like there are no right answers. If there were, everyone would choose the right answers. They’re all opinions.

We live in a bewildering world.

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves – and the better the teacher, the better the student body.

In the political system, we are a team; politics and bureaucracy, we are a team. The politicians, bureaucrats and the people, we are a team.

One of the powerful temptations is that of the cinema palace. The cinema has undoubtedly an enormous attraction for boys, and people are constantly cudgelling their brains how to stop it. But it is one of those things which would be very difficult to stop even if it were altogether desirable.

I think where political issues invade moral situations, spiritual leaders have to speak out.

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them – that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Some people say that I should study to become a climate scientist so that I can ‚solve the climate crisis.‘ But the climate crisis has already been solved. We already have all the facts and solutions. All we have to do is to wake up and change.

It is very nearly impossible… to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.

Things ain’t what they used to be and never were.

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

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

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

The fact is that we would have had comprehensive health care now, had it not been for Ted Kennedy’s deliberately blocking the legislation that I proposed in 1978 or ’79.

In December, I agreed to extend the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans because it was the only way I could prevent a tax hike on middle-class Americans. But we cannot afford $1 trillion worth of tax cuts for every millionaire and billionaire in our society. We can’t afford it. And I refuse to renew them again.

We have an epidemic of insecure people in our society today.

So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing.

In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.

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.

So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their ending!

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.

Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.

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

Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks it’s a subject below their social standing.

The finest clothing made is a person’s own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.

I don’t think consensus-building politics is what I’m meant to be doing.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

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

For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: ‚If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?‘ And whenever the answer has been ‚No‘ for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

I have considered voting Conservative because I am so against the Labour party.

The U.S.S.R. had absolutely nothing to do with the triumph of the Cuban Revolution.

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

That fatal drollery called a representative government.

I had three points I wanted to make: That not everybody in Hollywood is on the left, that Obama has broken a lot of the promises he made when he took office, and that the people should feel free to get rid of any politician who’s not doing a good job. But I didn’t make up my mind exactly what I was going to say until I said it.

If you believe that tax policy has nothing to do with the economy, then you’re pretty much like a rock, only dumber.

You can’t move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn’t mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

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

Well, I have great respect for Senator Hirono.

Remember, no one decides who they’re going to vote for based on the vice president. I mean that literally.

I’ve learned that we all change constantly. It’s rare to find that person who is growing with you in the same way at the same time, who encourages you to grow.

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

Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.

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

There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.

There never was and is not likely soon to be a nation of philosophers, nor am I certain it is desirable that there should be.