Something’s very wrong with a nation that would rather spend money on war than take care of its children.

Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.

War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.

I love it when Muslims go to war with each other, as I do when the Christians do, because it shows there’s no such thing as the Christian world and the Islamic world. That’s all crap.

Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.

When you work with kids, especially, you want to be ready to turn the camera on at a moment’s notice.

I want a president who will teach our children that everyone in this country matters, a president who truly believes in the vision that our Founders put forth all those years ago that we are all created equal, each a beloved part of the great American story.

As a country, we can’t teach kids how to read and write when we got 18 years to do it. And that’s – that’s a disgrace.

There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.

Money has always been in politics. And I’m not sure you’d want money to be completely out of politics.

No, we don’t own our children. Our parental privilege is to love them, to lead them, and to let them go.

It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them.

Organized murder is war, and though we demonstrate against a particular war, the nuclear, or any other kind of war, we have never demonstrated against war.

If something inconveniences my children too much or takes me away from them, I won’t do it.

The idea that there is one kind of African is, of course, ridiculous. Sometimes African entrepreneurs want to kill you because you are saying public health is the priority, not roads. Of course they are right to press for that issue, but so are we right, I believe, to argue, for example, that millions of children could and should be vaccinated.

The capitalist system is about taking from the Earth and from the other great commodity, labour. What’s happening with this system is that the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer, and the only way out of it is supposed to be growth. But growth is debt. It’s going to make the situation worse.

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

In my view of the present aspect of affairs, there is no need of bloodshed and war. There is no necessity for it. I am not in favor of such a course, and I may say in advance, there will be no blood shed unless it be forced upon the government. The government will not use force unless force is used against it.

In a democracy, the well-being, individuality and happiness of every citizen is important for the overall prosperity, peace and happiness of the nation.

I had this child, and it destroyed my family.

In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.

A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

We lived in a tall, narrow Victorian house, which my parents had bought very cheaply during the war, when everyone thought London was going to be bombed flat. In fact, a V-2 rocket landed a few houses away from ours. I was away with my mother and sister at the time, but my father was in the house.

My first job in all honesty is going to continue to be mom-in-chief. Making sure that in this transition, which will be even more of a transition for the girls… that they are settled and that they know they will continue to be the center of our universe.

It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.

Maleficent has suffered abuse in the past, and there’s a reason why she is now as furious as she is. And I think that children who have been outcast and abused in any way will relate to her. There’s a beautiful side to her; she’s not just a dark person. She has all these facets. And that is interesting.

Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There’s a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.

Don’t forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

I don’t pick up toys. I crush them.

When I was young I didn’t care about education, just money and box office.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

I think any activity you have your kids in, you’re all trying to live vicariously through them. And you’re jealous of the kid that’s naturally more talented or has the facility, the body, the genes, or the God-given talent. People get jealous of that.

Freedom is not enough.

We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon – no alternative.

I think war is so incredibly backward, and I don’t think it’s intelligent, and it’s not sane. So why would you want to support it?

It’s annoying, but justice and equality are mates. Aren’t they? Justice always wants to hang out with equality. And equality is a real pain.

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

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

Children have always responded to me because I have that cartoon-character look.

I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.

Washington still refuses to provide evidence to support the claims in 1990 that a huge Iraqi military build-up on the Saudi border justified war.

In war, you win or lose, live or die – and the difference is just an eyelash.

Youngsters of the age of two and three are endowed with extraordinary strength. They can lift a dog twice their own weight and dump him into the bathtub.

America is a Nation with a mission – and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace – a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman.

In a summer marked by instability in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, I know the world also took notice of the small American city of Ferguson, Missouri – where a young man was killed, and a community was divided. So yes, we have our own racial and ethnic tensions.

All I can say is I am sensitive to discrimination on any basis because I have experienced that upset.

I’m sorry, it’s true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We’re born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It’s been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much – if at all.

I don’t know what’s better gettin‘ laid or gettin‘ paid.

I was very worried about my mother, growing up – a lot. I do not want my children to be worried about me.

My three children have brought me great joy.

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

Sometimes, it’s just easier to say yes to that extra snack or dessert, because frankly, it is exhausting to keep saying no. It’s exhausting to plead with our kids to eat just one more bite of vegetables.

Our veterans who fall on hard times and find themselves without a home deserve more than just handwringing or kind words. They deserve real help that gets them back on their feet.

I teach children to be winners.

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

The average family spends 30 hours in front of a television, and they say they don’t have the time to have a balanced, integrated life.

If you are a parent, you have probably already realized that your children are always watching what you do. And just as children watch their parents and emulate their behavior, so do employees who are watching their bosses.