I thought Star Wars was too wacky for the general public.

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

When you think about it, Adolf Hitler was the first pop star.

I sincerely believe… that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.

I’m not concerned about all hell breaking loose, but that a PART of hell will break loose… it’ll be much harder to detect.

If you talk bad about country music, it’s like saying bad things about my momma. Them’s fightin‘ words.

There’s no doubt that inequality destabilizes societies. I think the social science evidence on that front is crystal clear.

I don’t usually admire Sarah Palin, but when she was making fun of this ‚hopey changey stuff,‘ she was right: there was nothing there.

I am such a political person.

It was the money from ‚Star Wars‘ and ‚Jaws‘ that allowed the theaters to build their multiplexes, which allowed an opening up of screens.

‚I am‘ is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that ‚I do‘ is the longest sentence?

I’m one of those people who says, ‚yes, cinema died when they invented sound.‘

Like it or not, there are a lot of dance teachers in this country who respect me, whether they personally like me or not.

The Army will take its lessons learned. They’re excellent at looking into themselves and reflecting on what did we do right, what did we do wrong.

Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts.

Let’s be honest. Canada wasn’t ever cool.

How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!

Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

I guess every single word I’ve ever said is going to be dissected now.

Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.

I personally never expected anything of Obama, and wrote about it before the 2008 primaries. I thought it was smoke and mirrors.

Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.

My opinion is it’s a bridge too far to go to fully autonomous cars.

I just didn’t want to get out there anymore; I didn’t want to get back into what I call ‚the swamp.‘ And the other reason why is I don’t think it’s good for the presidency for a former president to be opining about his successor. President Obama’s got plenty of critics – and I’m just not gonna be one.

I see the world in black and white, and I don’t like compromising.

Study men, not historians.

Philosophy is common sense with big words.

Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions.

Not everybody is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is.

I think ‚Invisible‘ is a great song, but I don’t know how accessible it is.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

There is good and mediocre writing within every genre.

I don’t like the name, U2, actually.

Religion has the right to express its opinion in the service of the people, but God in creation has set us free: it is not possible to interfere spiritually in the life of a person.

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

Truth is weirder than any fiction I’ve seen.

We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.

Now is the winter of our discontent.

Pop is totally results-oriented and there is a very strong feedback loop.

To be honest, there are no problems between me and Messi. People have their own opinions about who they think is the better player. It is what it is, but there is no rivalry beyond games and what happens on the pitch.

Politically there were failures. And also on the personal level, there were tremendous failures.

Ultimately, a real understanding of history means that we face nothing new under the sun.

I never ask anyone else’s opinion. They don’t count.

When ‚Paul’s Boutique‘ came out, I was one of the fans that didn’t get it.

I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.

So foul and fair a day I have not seen.

Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

A president has an inescapable responsibility to provide direction: What are we trying to achieve? What are we trying to prevent? Why? To do that, he has to both analyze and reflect.

With the possible exception of things like box scores, race results, and stock market tabulations, there is no such thing as Objective Journalism. The phrase itself is a pompous contradiction in terms.

Ever since Newton, we’ve done science by taking things apart to see how they work. What the computer enables us to do is to put things together to see how they work: we’re now synthesized rather than analysed. I find one of the most enthralling aspects of computers is limitless communication.

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.

The Koran shows every sign of being thrown together by human beings, as do all the other holy books.

History, a distillation of rumour.

Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.

Romcoms are hard in a lot of ways: they’re built to be buoyant. It’s easy to demean them.

In doubtful cases the more liberal interpretation must always be preferred.

It has not yet become obvious to me that there’s no real problem. I cannot define the real problem; therefore, I suspect there’s no real problem, but I’m not sure there’s no real problem.

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

Blood alone moves the wheels of history.