The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.

Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.

Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.

When America stopped importing from China, China stopped importing from the rest of the world. This affects Asian countries as well as Australia, Brazil, and other suppliers of raw materials.

It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn’t get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.

History will point out some of the things I did wrong and some of the things I did right.

I was born in London in England in 1934. I went through, as a child, the horrors of World War II, through a time when food was rationed and we learned to be very careful, and we never had more to eat than what we needed to eat. There was no waste. Everything was used.

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

If you look back at the history of the twentieth century, Germany alone had practically destroyed Russia several times.

Government does not create wealth. The major role for the government is to create an environment where people take risks to expand the job rate in the United States.

The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.

I’m afraid the SS’s relationship with the Catholic Church is something the Church still has to deal with and does not deny.

If we could do high-speed rail in California just half a notch above what they’ve done on the Shanghai line in China, and if we had a straight path from L.A. to San Francisco, as well as the milk run, at least that would be progress.

Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.

Leadership is absolutely vital if there are comparable countries which can affect the security of the world you live in. Between Lincoln and Roosevelt’s time, America was protected by huge oceans and, in practice, by the British navy. Today, it’s different, and the obsession of the Obama administration has been for retrenchment.

I am such a political person.

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

In the history of medicine, it is not always the great scientist or the learned doctor who goes forward to discover new fields, new avenues, new ideas.

As a matter of fact, I didn’t make a political speech outside of my state for 20 years.

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first, rock ‚n‘ roll or Christianity.

If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

Nobody is above the law. Imagine if there allegations against Modi and he is the Prime Minister. Should the case not be pursued just because he has become the PM. It should not be so that it should be stopped. I am not above the law.

Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.

Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.

I’ve said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America!

I noticed words crudely spray-painted upon the wall, perhaps by a young Berliner: ‚This wall will fall. Beliefs become reality.‘ Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.

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’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.

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

History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.

Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.

You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.

Physics has a history of synthesizing many phenomena into a few theories.

What Britain needs is an iron lady.

There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.

Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.

There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made.

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

Nixon was no more a saint than he was a great president.

Trump has no sense of shame.

A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

Ever since the morning of May 29, 1953, when Tenzing Norgay and I became the first climbers to step onto the summit of Mount Everest, I’ve been called a great adventurer.

No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

Everything isn’t political.

I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property.

How can we help President Obama?

That fatal drollery called a representative government.

Time is something that interests me a whole lot – past and present, and how the past appears as people change.

Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves. That’s why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.

And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

The Center for Disease Control started out as the malaria war control board based in Atlanta. Partly because the head of Coke had some people out to his plantation, and they got infected with malaria, and partly ‚cause all the military recruits were coming down and having a higher fatality rate from malaria while training than in the field.

London is a roost for every bird.

In the early 1940s, as a young teenager, I was utterly appalled by the racist and jingoist hysteria of the anti-Japanese propaganda. The Germans were evil, but treated with some respect: They were, after all, blond Aryan types, just like our imaginary self-image. Japanese were mere vermin, to be crushed like ants.

We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.

It’s nice to say let’s be bipartisan. But we’re a partisan nation. We were raised as a partisan nation.

We need to reject any politics that targets people because of race or religion. This isn’t a matter of political correctness. It’s a matter of understanding what makes us strong. The world respects us not just for our arsenal; it respects us for our diversity and our openness and the way we respect every faith.