Politically, the world is so confused right now – there’s so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

I truly believe that when the history books are written, our age will be remembered for three things: the war on terror, the digital revolution, and what we did – or did not do – to put the fire out in Africa. History, like God, is watching what we do.

Scientists are not delinquents. Our work has changed the conditions in which men live, but the use made of these changes is the problem of governments, not of scientists.

King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.

I’m a singer, not a politician, and I think you don’t want the two to get confused. It’s not OK to be on CNN talking about people starving and then tell the interviewer that your new album is coming out in six months.

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

There’s no doubt that usually a president’s public image is enhanced by going to war. That never did appeal to me.

I think our politicians could learn a lot from Mandela.

Liberals seem to assume that, if you don’t believe in their particular political solutions, then you don’t really care about the people that they claim to want to help.

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

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.

My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.

The fundamental question I believe is, ‚Is political Islam in our best interest?‘ If not, what is our policy to authoritatively support the countervailing forces?

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

A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.

Nobody is above the law. Imagine if there allegations against Modi and he is the Prime Minister. Should the case not be pursued just because he has become the PM. It should not be so that it should be stopped. I am not above the law.

Don’t interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.

Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.

Before I became a chief minister, I never thought that one day I’d be the chief minister.

As capitalism falters, the rich move their money out of the country, violence increases, and politicians promising prosperity are elected.

Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It’s the other way around. They never vote for us.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

‚Suffering should not make us bitter people,‘ my mother once said, ‚it should make us better comforters.‘ Young people need to hear this from those who have walked before them, because someday they’ll be walking those same steps, but there may not be anyone following behind.

You’ve got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS.

Government can provide opportunity. But opportunity means nothing unless people are prepared to seize it.

In order to have your voice be heard in Washington, you have to make some little contribution.

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

I don’t think consensus-building politics is what I’m meant to be doing.

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.

Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.

Our friends at the Republican convention were more than happy to talk about everything they think is wrong with America, but they didn’t have much to say about how they’d make it right. They want your vote, but they don’t want you to know their plan.

The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes.

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

I’m glad I’m not Brezhnev. Being the Russian leader in the Kremlin. You never know if someone’s tape recording what you say.

The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.

When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals.

That fatal drollery called a representative government.

Nowadays, politically, everybody is promising everything. That’s the only way you can get elected.

As a tactic, violence is absurd. No one can compete with the Government in violence, and the resort to violence, which will surely fail, will simply frighten and alienate some who can be reached, and will further encourage the ideologists and administrators of forceful repression.

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

The world is too violent right now.

History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.

We have the tendency to run away from suffering and to look for happiness. But, in fact, if you have not suffered, you have no chance to experience real happiness.

I am making a collection of the things my opponents have found me to be and, when this election is over, I am going to open a museum and put them on display.

My son Emilio is running for Congress to continue the fight for social justice.

I would rather drink weedkiller than support Obamacare.

Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.

Empire and liberty.

The Democratic position seems to be everything is going to be free. Free education. Free health care. Free housing. Free love. Free kittens, I don’t know.

I think that both parties should declare the debt limit as a political weapon of mass destruction which can’t be used. I mean, it is silly to have a country that has 237 years building up its reputation and then have people threaten to tear it down because they’re not getting some other matter.

Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.

You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I’m innocent. You’ve got to believe I’m innocent. If you don’t, take my job.

There’s only one person in this race who will be there, who’s always been there for you, and that’s Hillary Clinton’s life story.

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.

Part of what confuses people in times of upheaval is that you’re getting so many different points of view and directions and so and so, how to do this and do that. And a lot of it is written in a language that honestly most people cannot understand.

I am not a crook.

I almost laughed about the Machiavellian plans of the presidents of the United States.

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.

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