Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.
HeraclitusThe first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.
Ernest HemingwayThe best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.
VoltaireWhen 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 ChomskyThe average age of the world’s greatest civilizations from the beginning of history has been about 200 years.
Robert KiyosakiOf all the inventions of humans, the computer is going to rank near or at the top as history unfolds and we look back. It is the most awesome tool that we have ever invented. I feel incredibly lucky to be at exactly the right place in Silicon Valley, at exactly the right time, historically, where this invention has taken form.
Steve JobsI have always been an old-line Henry Clay Whig.
Abraham LincolnThe Democratic position seems to be everything is going to be free. Free education. Free health care. Free housing. Free love. Free kittens, I don’t know.
John KennedyDemocracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
H. L. MenckenMetaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.
William JamesWith 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.
Jocko WillinkThe more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.
Brian TracyOur friends at the Republican convention were more than happy to talk about everything they think is wrong with America, but they didn’t have much to say about how they’d make it right. They want your vote, but they don’t want you to know their plan.
Barack ObamaThe 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 MattisPoets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
PlatoEvery age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.
Jean-Paul SartreWe pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.
Jean-Jacques RousseauPolitics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
Ronald ReaganListen with the intent to understand, not the intent to reply.
Stephen CoveyThe moment you think you understand a great work of art, it’s dead for you.
Oscar WildeThe U.S. couldn’t even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They’ll be killing each other again in less than a year. I’m sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits.
Bill GatesMy daughter doesn’t even get my humor. She’s like, ‚Um, no. I don’t get it, Dad. Mmm, no, not that one, Dad.‘
Kevin HartSome say we should not engage in activism. Instead we should leave everything to our politicians and just vote for a change instead. But what do we do when there is no political will? What do we do when the politics needed are nowhere in sight?
Greta ThunbergWe can learn to see each other and see ourselves in each other and recognize that human beings are more alike than we are unalike.
Maya AngelouAll our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
Immanuel KantYou’ve got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS.
BonoActually, to be an effective person politically in this country, I think you have to be thirty or over, and also you have to be rich, well-placed, you have to be close to power. And I don’t think that young people, because they look young, can do much, as I think they are counterproductive.
Kurt VonnegutSocial struggles have been taking place throughout millennia, since human beings, by resorting to wars, were able to take hold of a surplus production to satisfy the essential needs of life.
Fidel CastroAt United, there are great traditions, which you can’t buy in one or two years. They are created by victories. You need to prove again and again that you are better than the others. Manchester United have always done this, and are still doing it, so they are the best.
Cristiano RonaldoMuch publishing is done through politics, friends, and natural stupidity.
Charles BukowskiI do not think I could myself be brought to support a man for office whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.
Abraham LincolnA kingdom founded on injustice never lasts.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaI’m going to stay active as long as I can politically, and with the Carter Center primarily, and if I’m able mentally and physically, will continue to be quite active.
Jimmy CarterThere might be some serious fun in politics.
Hunter S. ThompsonLiberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
James MadisonI became a Republican in 1951, the first year I could vote.
Clint EastwoodI would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary.
Charles SpurgeonThe evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.
Albert CamusThe people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.
Lao TzuI don’t make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
Will RogersWhen people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.
Lou HoltzWhen the President does it, that means that it’s not illegal.
Richard M. NixonThe 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 think it is important for Europe to understand that even though I am president and George Bush is not president, Al Qaeda is still a threat.
Barack ObamaFor my name and memory I leave to men’s charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.
Francis BaconChange happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don’t believe is right.
Jane GoodallThat’s what I do this for, to secure my family’s future. I don’t care about anything else. I’m able to spoil people, and that’s the best thing.
Conor McGregorIt’s a very good historical book about history.
Dan QuayleI think our politicians could learn a lot from Mandela.
Clint EastwoodHalf a truth is better than no politics.
Gilbert K. ChestertonTake it from someone who fled the Iron Curtain: I know what happens when you give the Russians a green light.
Madeleine AlbrightBorn to a tribal Bedouin family of nomadic desert shepherds in the region of Tripoli, Gaddafi was profoundly anti-colonialist. It is affirmed that his paternal grandfather died fighting against the Italian invaders when Libya was invaded by them in 1911.
Fidel CastroFree people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.
Jean-Jacques RousseauI think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So he spent time trying to be all things to all people – one way guaranteed not to be successful or respected in a lion’s den. You can’t just play around with all those big cats – you’ve got to take somebody on.
Maya AngelouI will not run for president. No, nope, not going to do it.
Michelle ObamaEven a paranoid can have enemies.
Henry KissingerIf there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America.
Nelson MandelaA bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants.
Harry S. TrumanRightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add ‚within the limits of the law‘ because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.
Thomas JeffersonFree government is the most difficult of all government. But it is everlastingly true that the plain people will make fewer mistakes than any other group of men, no matter how powerful.
Herbert Hoover