The artist part of me always wants to be appreciated. I read every review. But I never wanted to seek validation by awards or anything controlled by politics.

If I was just a fan of music, I would think that I was the number one artist in the world.

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

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

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

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

The mob is the mother of tyrants.

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.

Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. A lot of people don’t appreciate the moment until it’s passed.

He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.

Sometimes we be playing the politics too much and forget who we are just to win.

Of course awards matter.

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

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

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.

I can die a happy man never having been president of the United States of America. But it doesn’t mean I won’t run.

Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.

I was a little worried that young people would think the only game was being political and manipulative when really the bigger game is being so good at what you do that nobody can argue with your results.

Our country was founded by geniuses, but it’s being run by idiots.

This is a moment that I deeply wish my parents could have lived to share. My father would have enjoyed what you have so generously said of me-and my mother would have believed it.

I’m going to stay active as long as I can politically, and with the Carter Center primarily, and if I’m able mentally and physically, will continue to be quite active.

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.

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

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

It was such a leap in my career when ‚Truman Show‘ came along. It’s always been a long process for me insofar as recognition goes, but that’s OK because you appreciate it when it comes.

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

I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.

Much publishing is done through politics, friends, and natural stupidity.

Perhaps it’s good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he’s happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?

Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do.

It sure is hell to be president.

I think America has always been polarized.

For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.

I really don’t like women who try to be men. All these politicians, I think they’re horrendous. We could have a brilliant future, but we have this terrible male vision of destroying everything. They’d better sort themselves out and become more womanly.

Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working marvelously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones.

For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.

There is probably a perverse pride in my administration… that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who’s occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can’t be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.

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

I think of myself more as a sportsman than I do an artist.

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

I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.

What good are fans? You can’t eat applause for breakfast. You can’t sleep with it.

I can’t deny that label-support gave me a leg up – though not every successful artist needs it.

If you are born an artist, you have no choice but to fight to stay an artist.

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

I am Warhol. I am the No. 1 most impactful artist of our generation. I am Shakespeare in the flesh.

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.

Fortunately, we have help from the media. I have to say this: I’m very grateful for the support and kindness that we’ve gotten. People have respected their privacy and in that way, I think, you know, no matter what people may feel about my husband’s policies or what have you, they care about children and that’s been good to see.

I’ll be glad to reply to or dodge your questions, depending on what I think will help our election most.

Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else.

When you are president, being able to clearly articulate detailed plans to help the people of this country is a good thing. Knowing what you’re doing is a good thing. And let me tell you, Hillary Clinton absolutely knows what she’s doing.

The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes. He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments.

The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid; the state of being alone.

I don’t think President Trump is a racist.

It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.

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

As an artist, as a brand, as a rapper, as a musician, you know you got a window and a lot of people, even an athlete; they don’t have no exit strategy. It’s just living in the false reality that it’s going to be like this forever.

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

From my standpoint, being an artist, I want to see what the new construction is between artist and audience.