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.

Surveys show our standing around the world is higher than when I was elected to this office, and when it comes to every important international issue, people of the world do not look to Beijing or Moscow to lead – they call us.

Man seems to be the only animal whose food soils him, making necessary much washing and shield-like bibs and napkins. Moles living in the earth and eating slimy worms are yet as clean as seals or fishes, whose lives are one perpetual wash.

During most of my freelancing, I made what I would have made in charge of the cafeteria at a pretty good junior-high school.

The United States supports a strong, united Ukraine with productive and peaceful relationships with both the East and the West, with both Russia and Europe.

Doing a show for three weeks is nothing like doing a show for seven seasons.

The many questions about the bombing of Yugoslavia by the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation – meaning primarily the United States – come down to two fundamental issues: ‚What are the accepted and applicable ‚rules of world order,‘ and how do these apply in the case of Kosovo?‘

Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.

In 1961, the United States began chemical warfare in Vietnam, South Vietnam, chemical warfare to destroy crops and livestock. That went on for seven years. The level of poison – they used the most extreme carcinogen known: dioxin. And this went on for years.

If the United States loses the economic weapons of control, it is very much weakened.

First, how do we give everyone a fair shot at opportunity and security in this new economy? Second, how do we make technology work for us, and not against us – especially when it comes to solving urgent challenges like climate change? Third, how do we keep America safe and lead the world without becoming its policeman?

My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.

Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.

I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily.

America doesn’t have health insurance.

As a Western, ‚The Magnificent Seven‘ was a pretty good film. I don’t think it was as interesting or as multi-faceted as ‚Seven Samurai.‘

The quality of research in the U.S. is absolutely the best.

There is no gambling like politics.

If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America.

If I had to choose a superhero to be, I would pick Superman. He’s everything that I’m not.

Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.

See that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.

Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.

I perhaps ought to say that individually I never was much interested in the Texas question. I never could see much good to come of annexation, inasmuch as they were already a free republican people on our own model.

From my intimate discussions with President Obama, it is evident that India figures significantly in American geo-political, economic and strategic thinking. India is the largest democracy in the world.

A majority is always better than the best repartee.

My idea, as the whole world knows, is that the capitalist system now doesn’t work either for the United States or the world, driving it from crisis to crisis, which are each time more serious.

Britain kept its position as the dominant world power well into the 20th century despite steady decline. By the end of World War II, dominance had shifted decisively into the hands of the upstart across the sea, the United States, by far the most powerful and wealthy society in world history.

Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.

To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.

I never admire another’s fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.

French fries kill more people than guns and sharks, yet nobody’s afraid of French fries.

One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide.

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.

Undoubtedly, the U.S. harbors leading international terrorists, people described by the F.B.I. and the Justice Department as leading terrorists, like Orlando Bosch, now Posada Carriles, not to speak of those who actually implement state terrorism.

I can say with confidence there has never been a man or a woman – not me, not Bill, nobody – more qualified than Hillary Clinton to serve as president of the United States of America.

Ladies and gentlemen, god bless America – land of the free, home of the brave.

In the spring of 1929, I returned to the United States. I was homesick for this country. I had learned in my student days a great deal about the new physics. I wanted to pursue this myself, to explain it, and to foster its cultivation.

What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us.

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

It is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality.

Japan is an important ally of ours. Japan and the United States of the Western industrialized capacity, 60 percent of the GNP, two countries. That’s a statement in and of itself.

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

The Oslo Accords in 1993 determined that the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are a single territorial entity which cannot be divided. Immediately, the United States and Israel set about separating the two and making sure that they would not be united.

We judge people in areas where we’re vulnerable to shame, especially picking folks who are doing worse than we’re doing.

I’ve done a number of Super Bowl ads. And that is the best advertising of the year. That is when people realize they’re going to be compared directly against other ads.

When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before.

It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.

We have the oldest written constitution still in force in the world, and it starts out with three words, ‚We, the people.‘

Oh, the difference between nearly right and exactly right.

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

Right after 9-11, as far as I know, one newspaper in the United States had the integrity to investigate opinion in the Muslim world: the ‚Wall Street Journal.‘

If a man’s wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.

Prohibition is better than no liquor at all.

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.

I disagree with any policy that would turn America’s back on people who are fleeing harm. I frankly believe that it is contrary to everything that we have symbolically and actually said we stand for.

You might say that Lyndon Johnson is a cross between a Baptist preacher and a cowboy.

Hate crime is not new in the United States.

There is only a finger’s difference between a wise man and a fool.

The Old Testament God is a person with body parts and passions. The Church of England God has neither body, parts nor passions, and is therefore not a person.