The U.S.S.R. had absolutely nothing to do with the triumph of the Cuban Revolution.

Government’s first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

The idea that women were oppressed throughout history is an appalling theory.

I became a Communist by studying capitalist political economy, and when I had some understanding of that problem, it actually seemed to me so absurd, so irrational, so inhuman, that I simply began to elaborate on my own formulas for production and distribution.

There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.

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.

All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man.

This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics – a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage – surely that proves that you are in the right?

I’ve never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a ‚fat cat‘ and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a ‚public-spirited philanthropist‘.

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.

The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.

The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.

Even people on the liberal side are starting to worry about going off a fiscal cliff.

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

Experience acquired in the heroic battle against Batista’s tyranny showed that the enemy, no matter what his strength, could not defeat the Cuban people.

I don’t know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot.

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

America is just downright mean.

I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.

In politics nothing is contemptible.

Yes, the Bible should be taught in our schools because it is necessary to understand the Bible if we are to truly understand our own culture and how it came to be. The Bible has influenced every part of western culture from our art, music, and history, to our sense of fairness, charity, and business.

The greatest tragedy in mankind’s entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.

I guess you’d call me an independent, since I’ve never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label.

While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.

I cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator.

If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied.

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.

People make a big fuss over you when you’re President. But I’m very serious about doing everything I can to make sure that it doesn’t go to my head.

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer ‚Present‘ or ‚Not guilty.‘

I am a Christian. That obliges me to be a Communist.

All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself.

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

I have always been an old-line Henry Clay Whig.

The FBI should not be a political body.

Liberals seem to assume that, if you don’t believe in their particular political solutions, then you don’t really care about the people that they claim to want to help.

Woz is living his own life now. He hasn’t been around Apple for about five years. But what he did will go down in history.

What I’m asking for is hard. It’s easier to be cynical; to accept that change isn’t possible, and politics is hopeless, and to believe that our voices and actions don’t matter. But if we give up now, then we forsake a better future.

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

Politics is just a function of business now, just a tributary of the great entrepreneurial capitalist system.

What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.

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

In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.

Let’s teach kids, at the kindergarten level, what the contributions of people of color were to building the United States of America.

‚WASP‘ is the only ethnic term that is in fact a term of class, apart from redneck, which is another word for the same group but who are in the lower social strata, so it’s inexplicably tied up with social standing and culture and history in a way that the other hyphenations just are not.

War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.

I was a little girl in World War II and I’m used to being freed by Americans.

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

We need to pass comprehensive immigration reform, period.

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

Returning to your family and where you came from, and your history… this is what makes you strong. It’s not looking out that’s going to do that – it’s looking in.

The mob is the mother of tyrants.

I’ve analyzed the best I can… and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course.

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.

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.

When I was born in 1920, the auto was only 20 years old. Radio didn’t exist. TV didn’t exist. I was born at just the right time to write about all of these things.

If we can boondoggle ourselves out of this depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the hearts of the American people for years to come.

Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.