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

Our friends at the Republican convention were more than happy to talk about everything they think is wrong with America, but they didn’t have much to say about how they’d make it right. They want your vote, but they don’t want you to know their plan.

Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.

Only the aspirants for president are fool enough to believe what they read in the newspapers.

If people wonder, yes, Hillary Clinton is my friend. She has been a friend to me and Barack and Malia and Sasha, and Bill and Chelsea have been embracing and supportive from the very day my husband took the oath of office.

Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.

In order to have your voice be heard in Washington, you have to make some little contribution.

I am such a political person.

America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.

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

I believe that Catholics involved in politics carry the values of their religion within them, but have the mature awareness and expertise to implement them. The Church will never go beyond its task of expressing and disseminating its values, at least as long as I’m here.

How wonderful it is to be an American. We have known the best of times and the worst of times.

I don’t say very much I don’t really think through. I know that sounds inconsistent with Joe Biden.

Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.

If somebody’s dumb enough to ask me to go to a political convention and say something, they’re going to have to take what they get.

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

‚Bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age‘ was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals. The slogan does all the work. But an instant’s thought shows that Afghanistan is being, if anything, bombed out of the Stone Age.

I have been a firm believer in the federal structure of our country as enshrined in the Constitution.

We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.

Barack Obama is probably the most exciting candidate that either the Democratic or Republican party has produced at least since I’ve been around. He’s fresh, he’s new, he’s insightful.

If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.

Politics is the art of controlling your environment.

Richard Nixon was an evil man – evil in a way that only those who believe in the physical reality of the Devil can understand it. He was utterly without ethics or morals or any bedrock sense of decency.

Among the many values in life, I appreciate freedom most.

I didn’t consider myself a fashion designer at all at the time of punk. I was just using fashion as a way to express my resistance and to be rebellious. I came from the country, and by the time I got to London, I considered myself to be very stupid. It was my ambition to understand the world I live in.

There’s something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now.

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.

I think there ought to be a strict separation or wall built between our religious faith and our practice of political authority in office. I don’t think the President of the United States should extoll Christianity if he happens to be a Christian at the expense of Judaism, Islam or other faiths.

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

I know where I’m going and I know the truth, and I don’t have to be what you want me to be. I’m free to be what I want.

I believe in a president whose religious views are his own private affair, neither imposed by him upon the nation or imposed by the nation upon him as a condition to holding that office.

A new breeze is blowing, and a world refreshed by freedom seems reborn; for in man’s heart, if not in fact, the day of the dictator is over. The totalitarian era is passing, its old ideas blown away like leaves from an ancient, lifeless tree.

Fidelity and allegiance sworn to the King is only such a fidelity and obedience as is due to him by the law of the land; for were that faith and allegiance more than what the law requires, we would swear ourselves slaves and the King absolute; whereas, by the law, we are free men, notwithstanding those oaths.

A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants.

Commodities such as gold and silver have a world market that transcends national borders, politics, religions, and race. A person may not like someone else’s religion, but he’ll accept his gold.

There is neither spirit nor matter in the world. The stuff of the universe is spirit-matter. No other substance but this could have produced the human molecule.

One of the peculiarities of Delhi is that the term ‚reform‘ is associated only with passing of laws in Parliament. In fact, the most important reforms are those needed, without new laws, at various level of the government, in work practices and procedures.

The totalitarian, to me, is the enemy – the one that’s absolute, the one that wants control over the inside of your head, not just your actions and your taxes.

It is hard to overstate how valuable it is to have all the incredible tools that are used for human disease to study plants.

I felt extremely uncomfortable as the focal point, in the spotlight. I really like the behind the scenes role, because all my freedom is there.

Our body is dependant on Heaven and Heaven on the Spirit.

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what’s going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?

I have not endorsed Trump and will not do so.

The United States tyrannizes and pillages the globalized world with its political, economic, technological, and military might.

Let us ask ourselves, ‚What kind of people do we think we are?‘ And let us answer, ‚Free people, worthy of freedom and determined not only to remain so but to help others gain their freedom as well.‘

The advice I’ve been giving to people all my life – that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you; you can’t give up politics, it won’t give you up – was the advice I should have been taking myself.

Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome.

Within the soul of America is freedom of mind and spirit in man. Here alone are the open windows through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit. Here alone is human dignity not a dream but an accomplishment. Perhaps it is not perfect, but it is more full in realization here than any other place in the world.

The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.

As a tactic, violence is absurd. No one can compete with the Government in violence, and the resort to violence, which will surely fail, will simply frighten and alienate some who can be reached, and will further encourage the ideologists and administrators of forceful repression.

The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep’s throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.

It’s been my experience in politics that you can try and plan it out: ‚I’m going to hit the three ball which will hit the eight ball.‘ You’ve just got to go run and try to do everything right. And then have a little luck.

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

A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.

Anywhere in Latin America there is a potential threat of the pathology of caudillismo and it has to be guarded against.

Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I’m the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.

I know black people love the idea that we finally have a beautiful, good-looking black president. But if he is doing awful things to us, we should wake up.

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up.