Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

A lot has happened over the years. And while this nation has been tested by war, and it’s been tested by recession and all manner of challenges – I stand before you again tonight, after almost two terms as your president, to tell you I am more optimistic about the future of America than ever before.

Even today we raise our hand against our brother… We have perfected our weapons, our conscience has fallen asleep, and we have sharpened our ideas to justify ourselves as if it were normal we continue to sow destruction, pain, death. Violence and war lead only to death.

One of the problems of organizing in the North, in the rich countries, is that people tend to think – even the activists – that instant gratification is required. You constantly hear: ‚Look I went to a demonstration, and we didn’t stop the war so what’s the use of doing it again?‘

Half a truth is better than no politics.

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

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.

Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa’s leading organization – and I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think.

Morality is contraband in war.

Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.

People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve.

You do the policy, I’ll do the politics.

Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I’m the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.

I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere.

We’ve switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics – trying to play a serious part in the world – to a culture that’s really entertainment-based.

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous.

If you’re sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign.

The 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless the Republican Party the way it’s been carrying on, then the rest of us ought to get it without even asking.

The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.

One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing – after they’ve tried everything else.

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

Nobody wants to put the creditworthiness of the United States in jeopardy. Nobody wants to see the United States default. So we’ve got to seize this moment, and we have to seize it soon.

Only the aspirants for president are fool enough to believe what they read in the newspapers.

In politics… never retreat, never retract… never admit a mistake.

Considering their impact, you might expect mosquitoes to get more attention than they do. Sharks kill fewer than a dozen people every year, and in the U.S. they get a week dedicated to them on TV every year.

We cannot be both the world’s leading champion of peace and the world’s leading supplier of the weapons of war.

There was a stool there, and some fella kept asking me if I wanted to sit down. When I saw the stool sitting there, it gave me the idea. I’ll just put the stool out there and I’ll talk to Mr. Obama and ask him why he didn’t keep all of the promises he made to everybody.

I’m substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the White House and Congress are at odds over what the future direction should be. They’re sort of playing a game and NASA is the shuttlecock that they’re hitting back and forth.

A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over… is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I’m borrowing energy from the ideas themselves.

Having nothing, nothing can he lose.

The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

I don’t think that a Justice should have uppermost in her mind, ‚A Democratic president appointed me, so I must leave to be sure that another Democratic president can appoint my successor.‘

When I first went to places where people were suffering from war and persecution, I felt ashamed of my feelings of sadness. I could see more possibilities in my life.

I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.

Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.

Obama has succeeded in descending even below George W. Bush in approval in the Arab world. It’s minuscule, few percent.

If I studied all my life, I couldn’t think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.

Communism is a religion that is inspired, directed and motivated by the Devil himself who has declared war against Almighty God.

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

Marriage has no guarantees. If that’s what you’re looking for, go live with a car battery.

Senator McCain is Israel’s most unconditional ally in Mossad’s machinations, something that even his worst adversaries would have been able to imagine. McCain participated alongside this secret service in the creation of the Islamic State, which has appropriated a considerable part of Iraq as well as a third of Syria, according to its affirmations.

I can resist everything except temptation.

War is never a lasting solution for any problem.

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.

Barack Obama is probably the most exciting candidate that either the Democratic or Republican party has produced at least since I’ve been around. He’s fresh, he’s new, he’s insightful.

In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility – I welcome it.

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

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.

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

Who, being loved, is poor?