Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.

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

I’ve rarely kept my distance from kind of – I don’t know if we can call it politics, but kind of, civic engagement and that kind of thing, except I tended to think, ‚Well, do it yourself before you start telling other people what they should be doing.‘

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

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

I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.

A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.

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.

To some degree it matters who’s in office, but it matters more how much pressure they’re under from the public.

Mobile is a lot closer to TV than it is to desktop.

I’ve never seen America as an imperialist or colonialist or meddling country.

As a British driver, you get compared to Lewis and I get that. But when he came to McLaren, they were doing well and had a championship-winning car. I’m in a very different situation so I don’t compare myself to his stats.

I am not a crook.

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.

I found this national debt, doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office.

The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world – no ideals.

I’ll assure you this: I will have nothing to do with politics.

Who is richer? The man who is seen, but cannot see? Or the man who is not being seen, but can see?

How do you tell a communist? Well, it’s someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It’s someone who understands Marx and Lenin.

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.

This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

I think that people are tired. They’re tired of the same old kind of politics. People want a new tone to politics.

The Cold War isn’t thawing; it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn’t sleeping; it is, as always, plotting, scheming, working, fighting.

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.

By what principle of original right is it that one-fiftieth or one-ninetieth of a great nation, by calling themselves a State, have the right to break up and ruin that nation as a matter of original principle?

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

It is difficult to violently suppress people in the long run, as the example of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries has shown.

Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation.

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.

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

Madonna and I are very different. Just saying. We’re very different. I wouldn’t make that comparison at all, and I don’t mean to disrespect Madonna: she’s a nice lady, and she’s had a fantastic, huge career – biggest pop star of all time.

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

There’s no way now for you to get a Democratic or Republican nomination without being able to raise $200 or $300 million or more. I would not be inclined to do that, and I would not be capable of doing it.

The Iranian government is undoubtedly a severe danger to its own population, but not beyond that.

You cannot mix sports with politics.

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

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

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

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.

In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.

I think, under President Obama, who was a really bright guy – I didn’t agree with a lot of his politics – but we got to the point internationally where our friends didn’t trust us. They were confused. And our enemies didn’t quite respect us.

We are all the President’s men.

Mitt Romney subscribes to the cynical logic that says the American dream belongs to some of us but not all of us.

You just want something else that someone else has, but that doesn’t mean what you have isn’t beautiful, because people always want what you have, and you always want what they have – no one is ever 100 per cent like, ‚Yes, I’m the bomb dot com – from head to toe!‘

Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.

The only bipartisanship you ever see is when they finally sign a bill and everybody says, ‚Gee, isn’t that wonderful?‘

Man is not free unless government is limited.

We are not going to be satisfied by politicians saying ‚we support you‘ and then walking away. We won’t be satisfied until they meet our demands and act. That’s why simply taking a selfie or posting support on Twitter isn’t enough. That’s why we have to keep striking.

I have never really thought that the Left was much in ‚array‘ as far as political purposes were concerned.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.

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

The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

Actually, to be an effective person politically in this country, I think you have to be thirty or over, and also you have to be rich, well-placed, you have to be close to power. And I don’t think that young people, because they look young, can do much, as I think they are counterproductive.

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.‘

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

Socialism, reduced to its simplest legal and practical expression, means the complete discarding of the institution of private property by transforming it into public property, and the division of the resultant public income equally and indiscriminately among the entire population.

The idea that putting Americans ‚first‘ requires a withdrawal from the world is simply wrongheaded because a retreat would achieve exactly the opposite for our citizens.

Can people who hunger so desperately for what other people have ever have enough?

I don’t like to see a president who is just out campaigning all year long or for the last four years. I’d like to see somebody who’s going in the office. In fact, I’d like to not see them because that way you’d be sure that they’d be working.

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.

By 1960, the South Africans knew that they were becoming a pariah state.