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.

Politicians love regulating. That’s part of the whole power structure.

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer ‚Present‘ or ‚Not guilty.‘

I think that society has to be careful not to shift all of its resources to the elderly versus the young.

I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.

People forget… that we structured it so that the government, or the people, would be repaid with a really good rate of return. And as it turns out, that aspect of TARP, that’s what happened.

Everybody’s journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.

For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community.

I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.

We reached a high point in my opinion with the passage of the civil rights legislation and Martin Luther King’s success and the crusade of others. I think we kind of breathed a sigh of relief as if we had achieved the end of racial discrimination or white supremacy.

Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.

I think I was identified as a failed president because I wasn’t re-elected.

Morality arose largely as an empirical defence of the individual and society. Ever since intelligent beings began to be in contact, and consequently in friction, they have felt the need to guard themselves against each other’s encroachments.

It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.

Civilization is the making of civil persons.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die.

Your life is like a play with several acts. Some of the characters who enter have short roles to play, others, much larger. Some are villains and others are good guys. But all of them are necessary; otherwise, they wouldn’t be in the play. Embrace them all, and move on to the next act.

Trump just looks stupid trying to appeal to blacks and Latinos.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

Some people will have to be afraid. Those who plunder the nation, deliver injustice, will have to feel scared of me. And I am not afraid of admitting this. Government cannot be so lenient that it forgives them.

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.

More law, less justice.

We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

Modesty forbids what the law does not.

The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution – this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.

Black Americans, no more than white Americans, they do not want more government programs which perpetuate dependency. They don’t want to be a colony in a nation.

I have been very happy in the House of Representatives.

Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.

People do not make wars; governments do.

I am a strong believer that without justice, there is no peace. No lasting peace, anyway.

We live in an imperfect world, and imperfect people surround us every day.

Our life is frittered away by detail… simplify, simplify.

Life is a dead-end street.

I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.

I have spent my life going from mania to mania. Somehow it has all paid off.

No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

If you stop struggling, then you stop life.

Growing old has been the greatest surprise of my life.

Israel is a pretty crazy state.

Poverty is the mother of crime.

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.

I have been to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, and I have witnessed the racially segregated roads and housing that reminded me so much of the conditions we experienced in South Africa under the racist system of Apartheid.

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It’s too controversial.

Things in themselves have no life in them. A car can’t comfort or encourage you. A house means nothing if there’s no life and love inside.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

Songs don’t have to be about going out on Saturday night and having a good rink-up and driving home and crashing cars. A lot of what I’ve done is about alienation… about where you fit in society.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

There’s no doubt that inequality destabilizes societies. I think the social science evidence on that front is crystal clear.

We shall probably get nearest to the truth if we think of the conscious and personal psyche as resting upon the broad basis of an inherited and universal psychic disposition which is as such unconscious, and that our personal psyche bears the same relation to the collective psyche as the individual to society.

Life’s too short to hang out with people who aren’t resourceful.

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We’ve created life in our own image.

Life is tragic. You are tiny and flawed and ignorant and weak, and everything else is huge, complex, and overwhelming.

Above all, always be capable of feeling deeply any injustice committed against anyone, anywhere in the world. This is the most beautiful quality in a revolutionary.

Most of our lives aren’t that exciting, but the drama is still going on in the small details.

Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.

Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

If people continue to feel like Democrats are looking after poor folks and Republicans are looking after rich folks and nobody is looking after me, then we don’t get a lot of stuff done. And the trend lines evidence the fact that folks have gotten squeezed. And obviously, 2007, 2008 really ripped open for people how vulnerable they were.