So people are talking about revolution. What a revolution it would be to have a woman president.

It isn’t generally the case that liberals dominate entire hierarchies. That isn’t generally how it works, because the hierarchies are usually set up so that conservatives fill up the hierarchies; it’s in the nature of hierarchy.

Barack Obama would not be President if he were dark skin. You know what I mean? That’s just the truth. I might not be as successful as I am now if I was dark skin.

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.

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.

Politicians must set their aims for the high ground and according to our various leanings, Democratic, Republican, Independent, we will follow. Politicians must be told if they continue to sink into the mud of obscenity, they will proceed alone.

The President’s post should not be politicised. Once a president is elected, he is above politics.

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.

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

Politics… have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I’m against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.

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

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are in the right, for nothing has yet happened.

I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere.

The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.

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.

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.

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

The day-to-day making of policy is arguing all the time. You’re trying to get the right approach and the right answer, and there are moments that aren’t very pleasant. But in the end, you look at the overall product.

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Hanging out with politicians and corporations is very unhip work. But I think that the U2 audience have turned out to be incredibly subtle in their understanding.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

I’m not particularly a feminist, but if you get women off the animal cycle of reproduction and give them some say in how many children they’ll have, immediately the floor will rise.

Women have to be extremely careful about choosing something that they consider an act of defiance that can really be used to further their enslavement.

Politics is not bean bags. It’s serious, tough stuff.

Remember, it is not about voting for the perfect candidate – there is no such thing. Presidents are human.

No fundamental social change occurs merely because government acts. It’s because civil society, the conscience of a country, begins to rise up and demand – demand – demand change.

In the end, that’s what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?

I am a Christian and a Democrat, that’s all.

Government’s first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.

But I do not believe that the world would be entirely different if there were more women leaders. Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven’t exactly been non-aggressive – including me.

President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.

Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.

Politics doesn’t make strange bedfellows – marriage does.

I have something in common with Nazis in that I am opposed to the radical Left. And when you oppose the radical Left, you end up being a part of a much larger group that includes Nazis in it.

Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.

There is plenty of building material and more than enough manpower to make a decent home for every Cuban. But if we continue to wait for the golden calf, a thousand years will have gone by, and the problem will remain the same.

Political courage is not political suicide.

You can do without a woman but not a typewriter.

Policy makers who have never served in the military continue to use the military to lead social change in this country.

I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.

One of the best things that ever happened to me is that I’m a woman. That is the way all females should feel.

I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.

I can say with confidence there has never been a man or a woman – not me, not Bill, nobody – more qualified than Hillary Clinton to serve as president of the United States of America.

I think the whole stigma of ‚black movies‘ is slowly being lost. When you look at movies like ’12 Years A Slave,‘ to ‚The Butler,‘ to ‚The Best Man,‘ to ‚Ride Along,‘ to even ‚Think Like a Man‘ from last year – these movies are just good movies.

A revolution is not a bed of roses.

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

Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.

No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.

Man is not free unless government is limited.

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Be thankful we’re not getting all the government we’re paying for.

We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country.

Israelis would mostly breathe a sigh of relief if Palestinians were to disappear.

Obama himself has been highly supportive of Mubarak.

I will never retire from politics, the revolution, or the ideas I have.

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.

Whether women are better than men I cannot say – but I can say they are certainly no worse.

One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President.