I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.

I don’t even call them fans. I don’t like that. They’re literally just a part of my life; they’re a part of my family. I don’t think of them as on a lower level than me. I don’t think I’m anything but equal to all of them. So yeah, they’re basically all of my siblings.

Too many of us now tend to worship self indulgence and consumption.

The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes.

My wife told me if there is any rumors about me, it better be about politics and not about my social life.

For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself.

I can’t go out with a Republican.

The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.

I’ll assure you this: I will have nothing to do with politics.

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom.

2018 is an incredibly important election year, not just with the important midterms here in the U.S., but you just had the Mexican elections. You have Brazil. You have India coming up at the beginning of next year. There’s an assortment of elections around the EU. We’re very serious about this. We know that we need to get this right.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

You definitely want your kids to understand their heritage, but I don’t want my kids to just focus on being black. They are people. I don’t want them to judge other people or to be judged. I want them to be good people, so good people will treat them accordingly. I preach that to my kids and everything else falls into place.

So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.

Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.

Children are all foreigners.

Well, no one gives aid to Zimbabwe through the Mugabe government.

I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.

It is right to give every man his due.

Look at our society. Everyone wants to be thin, but nobody wants to diet. Everyone wants to live long, but few will exercise. Everybody wants money, yet seldom will anyone budget or control their spending.

Where do the evils like corruption arise from? It comes from the never-ending greed. The fight for corruption-free ethical society will have to be fought against this greed and replace it with ‚what can I give‘ spirit.

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable – a most sacred right – a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.

My parents taught me never to judge others based on whom they love, what color their skin is, or their religion.

Good governance with good intentions is the hallmark of our government. Implementation with integrity is our core passion.

All men are equal before fish.

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

These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people; and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people’s money to settle the quarrel.

I don’t know why women want any of the things men have when one of the things that women have is men.

There are some loony people in this world!

Many people, including some conservatives, have been very impressed with how brainy the president and his advisers are. But that is not quite as reassuring as it might seem.

Fortunately, we have help from the media. I have to say this: I’m very grateful for the support and kindness that we’ve gotten. People have respected their privacy and in that way, I think, you know, no matter what people may feel about my husband’s policies or what have you, they care about children and that’s been good to see.

Growing up, I decided, a long time ago, I wouldn’t accept any manmade differences between human beings, differences made at somebody else’s insistence or someone else’s whim or convenience.

We have two evils to fight, capitalism and racism. We must destroy both racism and capitalism.

The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.

Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.

All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words ‚Ich bin ein Berliner!‘

People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I’m not a crook. I earned everything I’ve got.

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.

I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can’t help it. It’s the truth.

Democracy as a system has evolved into something that Thomas Jefferson didn’t anticipate.

Some of the most moving experiences I’ve had are just in black churches in the South, during the Civil Rights Movement, where people were getting beaten, killed, really struggling for the most elementary rights.

This nuclear option is ultimately an example of the arrogance of power.

Every time I hear a politician mention the word ‚stimulus,‘ my mind flashes back to high school biology class, when I touched battery wires to a dead frog to make it twitch.

The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.

If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today.

Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.

We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.

Measure your wealth by what you’d have left if you lost all your money.

There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenseless people.

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?‘

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

He who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.

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.

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.

Yup, the whole birther movement was racist.

I pay attention to politics and technology.

If you’re not producing as much as you consume, or perhaps a little more, then clearly we cannot use the big organization of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us, and it can’t be of very much use to yourself.