John F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occupies the minds of the few but brings danger to the many.

I hate the way they portray us in the media. If you see a black family it says they’re looting, if you see a white family it says they’re looking for food.

The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.

Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.

All people are born alike – except Republicans and Democrats.

This is pure speculation, but for a period of time, a lot of getting into a party was through fundraising and volunteer work, and Republican women had more time to do that than democratic women, who were out there getting jobs.

Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.

AIDS itself is subject to incredible stigma.

Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don’t care what they say, they like it.

In the history of medicine, it is not always the great scientist or the learned doctor who goes forward to discover new fields, new avenues, new ideas.

Most members of Congress are politicians. They’re bores.

The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.

For Africa to me… is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were – to the very last minute – a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

I had three points I wanted to make: That not everybody in Hollywood is on the left, that Obama has broken a lot of the promises he made when he took office, and that the people should feel free to get rid of any politician who’s not doing a good job. But I didn’t make up my mind exactly what I was going to say until I said it.

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

I separated from the Southern Baptists when they adopted the discriminatory attitude towards women, because I believe what Paul taught in Galatians that there is no distinction in God’s eyes between men and women, slaves and masters, Jews and non-Jews – everybody is created equally in the eyes of God.

In a time of domestic crisis, men of goodwill and generosity should be able to unite regardless of party or politics.

Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.

If a secret history of books could be written, and the author’s private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!

To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.

America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it’s the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone’s talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images, devious and prejudicial language, dubious linkages, weak or false ‚intelligence‘ and selected ‚leaks.‘

Obama himself has been highly supportive of Mubarak.

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

Up until the 1920s, everyone thought the universe was essentially static and unchanging in time.

The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.

In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it’s more dangerous to lose than to win.

Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.

History shows us that in times of people feeling like they are in need of some sort of rebellion or protests, the artists rise because the poetry we create about pain and its relationship to culture in the world begins to soothe and heal people who are feeling confused or afraid.

I supported Donald Trump.

How can a president not be an actor?

There is obviously a gap between the public’s perception of the role of U.S. foreign policy and the elite’s perception.

Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.

Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past.

When you single out any particular group of people for secondary citizenship status, that’s a violation of basic human rights.

Americans… still believe in an America where anything’s possible – they just don’t think their leaders do.

I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.

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

Significant anniversaries are solemnly commemorated – Japan’s attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, for example.

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

Life isn’t meant to be easy. It’s hard to take being on the top – or on the bottom. I guess I’m something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things… Life is one crisis after another.

Auschwitz stands as a tragic reminder of the terrible potential man has for violence and inhumanity.

How fortunate I was to be alive and a lawyer when, for the first time in United States history, it became possible to urge, successfully, before legislatures and courts, the equal-citizenship stature of women and men as a fundamental constitutional principle.

In countries where innocent people are dying, the leaders are following their blood rather than their brains.

When I came to Johannesburg from the countryside, I knew nobody, but many strangers were very kind to me. I then was dragged into politics, and then, subsequently, I became a lawyer.

Acorns were good until bread was found.

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

The concern was that if a woman was doing gender equality, her chances of making it to tenure in the law school were diminished. It was considered frivolous.

Just as courage is the danger of life, so is fear its safeguard.

Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.

What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.

I haven’t been very active in politics.

I love the natural world – it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.

Bigotry is probably the thing I detest most.

Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as it was yesterday when you and I laid wreaths at the Garden of Remembrance.

Oh, yes; you Virginians shed barrels of perspiration while standing off at a distance and superintending the work your slaves do for you. It is different with us. Here it is every fellow for himself, or he doesn’t get there.

I know black people love the idea that we finally have a beautiful, good-looking black president. But if he is doing awful things to us, we should wake up.

One of the roles of the Presidency is to lead a political party. Having a President in office is usually a huge advantage to a party because it gives the party a mouthpiece and an advocate at the highest level.