In the wake of the events of 11 September 2001, it now seems clear that the shock of the attacks was exploited in America.

The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.

Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

All great change in America begins at the dinner table.

With those attacks, the terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States. And war is what they got.

Issues are never simple. One thing I’m proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.

I can express all my views on the slavery question by quotations from Henry Clay.

Undocumented aliens unfortunately are not protected by the law, and they are tremendously subjected to exploitation. The result is that they would be willing to work for a wage that no person who is welcome in our shores would take.

An economist’s guess is liable to be as good as anybody else’s.

Millions of students now, in all the schools of America, are reading science fiction and especially, thank God, ‚The Martian Chronicles.‘

The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.

America is the land of the second chance – and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.

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

It’s never paid to bet against America. We come through things, but its not always a smooth ride.

This administration is going to be cussed and discussed for years to come.

For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.

‚Kiss Land‘ is like a horror movie.

Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

Laughter is America’s most important export.

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

In America, there’s a failure to appreciate Europe’s leading role in the world.

Unfortunately, after Sept. 11, there was an outburst in America of intense suffering and patriotism, and the Bush administration was very shrewd and effective in painting anyone who disagreed with the policies as unpatriotic or even traitorous.

All art is quite useless.

After a century of trying, we declared that healthcare in America is not a privilege for a few, it is a right for everybody. After decades of talk, we finally began to wean ourselves off foreign oil. We doubled our production of clean energy. We brought more of our troops home to their families, and we delivered justice to Osama bin Laden.

If the experiments which I urge be defective, it cannot be difficult to show the defects; but if valid, then by proving the theory, they must render all objections invalid.

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

Look at situations from all angles, and you will become more open.

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

I cap myself when I shop; I don’t like to spend extravagant amounts on clothes. But, I do get lent clothes for events, it’s scary to wear something so expensive, but I feel really pampered.

I grew up in San Francisco. And so I’m informed in a certain kind of way about, you know, believing in democracy and believing in America. And I’m a very ardent patriot.

America must not ignore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof, the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.

In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.

These old ballparks are like cathedrals in America. We don’t have big old Gothic cathedrals like they do in Europe. But we got baseball parks.

Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.

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

I have found far greater enthusiasm for science in America than here in Britain. There is more enthusiasm for everything in America.

Well, when you come down to it, I don’t see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?

So while I will never minimize the costs involved in military action, I am convinced that a failure to act in Libya would have carried a far greater price for America.

This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant.

An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.

It is easier to be critical than correct.

Those who invest in South Africa should not think they are doing us a favor; they are here for what they get out of our cheap and abundant labor, and they should know that they are buttressing one of the most vicious systems.

Unlike many of its European neighbors, Britain shares many of America’s financial traits.

If you’re in business or politics, you need to have an intense understanding of what’s going on around you.

‚Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.

Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.

In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances, invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth.

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

I will never relent in defending America – whatever it takes.

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.

Our economic system, run for profit and waste and based primarily on the extractive industries, is the cause of climate change. We have wasted the earth’s treasure and we can no longer exploit it cheaply.

In Europe first and now in America, elected men have taken it upon themselves to indebt their people to create an atmosphere of dependency. And why? For their own selfish need to increase their own personal power.

Within the soul of America is freedom of mind and spirit in man. Here alone are the open windows through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit. Here alone is human dignity not a dream but an accomplishment. Perhaps it is not perfect, but it is more full in realization here than any other place in the world.

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.

Europe became rich because it exploited Africa; and the Africans know that.

Hoover was a patriot in his heart, but he definitely exceeded his power.

On September 11 2001, America felt its vulnerability even to threats that gather on the other side of the Earth. We resolved then, and we are resolved today, to confront every threat from any source that could bring sudden terror and suffering to America.

I’ve never seen America as an imperialist or colonialist or meddling country.

A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.

If you judge, investigate.

History should be written as philosophy.