Israelis would mostly breathe a sigh of relief if Palestinians were to disappear.

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root.

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.

An economically peaceful and prosperous Sri Lanka is the dream of youth of the nation. My message for the youth is to collectively work for an inclusively developed Sri Lanka.

I hope I’m wrong, but I am afraid that Iraq is going to turn out to be the greatest disaster in American foreign policy – worse than Vietnam, not in the number who died, but in terms of its unintended consequences and its reverberation throughout the region.

You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what’s happening in Africa, and if we’re honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.

Obamacare sucks, it can’t be fixed.

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey ‚people.‘ People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war… Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.

It is a fine game to play – the game of politics – and it is well worth waiting for a good hand before really plunging.

The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It’s the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.

All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man.

The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them.

Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome.

The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.

The Middle East is hopeful. There’s hope there.

I think, under President Obama, who was a really bright guy – I didn’t agree with a lot of his politics – but we got to the point internationally where our friends didn’t trust us. They were confused. And our enemies didn’t quite respect us.

Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.

For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.

My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.

There’s no political point worth my son’s life.

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, that he’s African American.

Ronald Reagan used to alarm other constituencies by speaking freely about the End Times foreshadowed in the Bible.

Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

I don’t make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

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

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.

I am certainly not politically affiliated with Mr. Obama.

A diplomatic solution that puts significant and verifiable constraints on Iran’s nuclear program represents the best and most sustainable chance to ensure that America, Israel, the entire Middle East will never be menaced by a nuclear-armed Iran.

Being elected to Congress, though I am very grateful to our friends for having done it, has not pleased me as much as I expected.

You know, one race will not be a survivor if the other one dies, and that’s something that we should think about.

If people wonder, yes, Hillary Clinton is my friend. She has been a friend to me and Barack and Malia and Sasha, and Bill and Chelsea have been embracing and supportive from the very day my husband took the oath of office.

‚In Utero‘ was the first time I’d made an album that reached into the dark side. I remember the conflict and the uncertainty. I remember all those things when I hear ‚Pennyroyal Tea.‘

When your higher self is present, it always promotes peace.

Part of the problem is there are people in Washington, D.C. in positions of power to whom the border is just a nuisance, and I think some of them believe that illegal immigration is a moral good. It is not. It undermines legal immigration.

The 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.

Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

I kept a very full diary of my relationship with Nixon, for some strange reason, until he became president.

Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.

Peace if possible, truth at all costs.

The artist part of me always wants to be appreciated. I read every review. But I never wanted to seek validation by awards or anything controlled by politics.

Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil!

There is not a liberal America and a conservative America – there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America – there’s the United States of America.

No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

India can live without nuclear weapons. That’s our dream, and it should be the dream of the U.S. also.

If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?

Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.

We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.

No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion.

Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!

The Arab population of Palestine are victims of genocidal actions; their lands are confiscated or deprived of water supplies in the semi-desert areas, and their homes are destroyed with heavy wrecking equipment.

Having a mind that is open to everything and attached to nothing seems to me to be one of the most basic principles that you can adopt to contribute to individual and world peace.

Only a liberal senator from Massachusetts would say that a 49 percent increase in funding for education was not enough.

Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.

Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.