Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.

Before I lost my voice, it was slurred, so only those close to me could understand, but with the computer voice, I found I could give popular lectures. I enjoy communicating science. It is important that the public understands basic science, if they are not to leave vital decisions to others.

I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So he spent time trying to be all things to all people – one way guaranteed not to be successful or respected in a lion’s den. You can’t just play around with all those big cats – you’ve got to take somebody on.

There are seasons in every country when noise and impudence pass current for worth; and in popular commotions especially, the clamors of interested and factious men are often mistaken for patriotism.

For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction.

Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself.

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.

That government is best which governs least.

It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.

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

Even after Independence, we have had to face the poison of casteism and communalism. How long these evils will continue? Whom does it benefit?

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

I used to think information was destroyed in black hole. This was my biggest blunder, or at least my biggest blunder in science.

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

I wish I could make music about politics. I feel like it’s such an art and a talent that I admire tremendously, but when I step into the studio, I step out of the real world, and it’s therapeutic.

Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.

The government of Israel doesn’t like the kinds of things I say, which puts them into the same category as every other government in the world.

I cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator.

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

It’s plain hokum. If you can’t convince ‚em, confuse ‚em. It’s an old political trick. But this time it won’t work.

If… many influential people have failed to understand, or have just forgotten, what we were up against in the Cold War and how we overcame it, they are not going to be capable of securing, let alone enlarging, the gains that liberty has made.

Religion is not going to come up with any new arguments.

If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.

Trump is a national disgrace and an international pariah.

You notice how liberals keep saying, ‚If only Islam would have a Reformation‘ – it can’t have one. It says it can’t. It’s extremely dangerous in that way.

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.

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.

Let me even say before I even get inaugurated, during the transition we are going to be having meetings all across the country with community organizations so that you have input into the agenda for the next presidency of the United States of America.

War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.

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

Understanding science and pushing the boundaries of science is what makes me immensely satisfied.

Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

Remember, no one decides who they’re going to vote for based on the vice president. I mean that literally.

Science is a tool, and we invent tools to do things we want. It’s a question of how those tools are used by people.

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

As a matter of fact, I didn’t make a political speech outside of my state for 20 years.

With all due respect, I am against dumb.

I pay attention to politics and technology.

Unlike my opponent, I will not let oil companies write this country’s energy plan, or endanger our coastlines, or collect another $4 billion in corporate welfare from our taxpayers.

America is just downright mean.

I don’t think generally politician come from democratic country. I think not that thinking. But sometimes little bit short-sighted. They are mainly looking for their next vote.

I supported Donald Trump.

You have a row of dominoes set up; you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is that it will go over very quickly.

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

There is no distinctly American criminal class – except Congress.

I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.

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.

What is politics? Political system is equal to development politics plus political politics.

People’s minds are changed through observation and not through argument.

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.

It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful: they are found because it was possible to find them.

I perhaps ought to say that individually I never was much interested in the Texas question. I never could see much good to come of annexation, inasmuch as they were already a free republican people on our own model.

The trouble with Nixon is that he’s a serious politics junkie. He’s totally hooked and like any other junkie, he’s a bummer to have around, especially as President.

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.

Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

I’m strictly for Stevenson. I don’t dig the intellectual bit, but I’m telling you, man, he knows the most.

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.

Let me just be very clear that the Republican Party will select a nominee that will beat Bill Clinton.

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.