The very phrase ‚foreign affairs‘ makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.

Pop is totally results-oriented and there is a very strong feedback loop.

As a Western, ‚The Magnificent Seven‘ was a pretty good film. I don’t think it was as interesting or as multi-faceted as ‚Seven Samurai.‘

Experts often possess more data than judgment.

I am not a televangelist.

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.

It is easier to be critical than correct.

As abhorrent as some of this content can be, I do think that it gets down to this principle of giving people a voice.

Study men, not historians.

All parents are concerned about their children’s well-being. As a parent of three kids, I’m very concerned about their well-being.

For 18 years I have resisted talking about current events. I am not going to start now.

Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.

My concern is that contention is becoming accepted as a way of life.

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

Sure, women sportswriters look when they’re in the clubhouse. Read their stories. How else do you explain a capital letter in the middle of a word?

The economy’s always been the engine for our national security.

The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.

Romcoms are hard in a lot of ways: they’re built to be buoyant. It’s easy to demean them.

There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.

If all the economists were laid end to end, they’d never reach a conclusion.

I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.

A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted… but to weigh and consider.

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.

Dissents speak to a future age.

For the people who ostensibly wish me well or are worried about my immortal soul, I say I take it kindly.

Truth is weirder than any fiction I’ve seen.

I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.

Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

It’s not a coincidence that in the Scriptures, poverty is mentioned more than 2,100 times. It’s not an accident. That’s a lot of air time, 2,100 mentions.

Certainly, if you look at human behavior around the world, you have to admit that we can be very aggressive.

‚Kiss Land‘ is like a horror movie.

It amazes me sometimes that even intelligent people will analyze a situation or make a judgement after only recognizing the standard or traditional structure of a piece.

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.

Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.

There is good and mediocre writing within every genre.

To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

There’s no art to find the mind’s construction in the face.

The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?

Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish.

How well he’s read, to reason against reading!

A witty saying proves nothing.

President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.

It’s not simply to say, ‚My colleagues are wrong, and I would do it this way,‘ but the greatest dissents do become court opinions.

We should not look at terrorism from the nameplates – which group they belong to, what is their geographical location, who are the victims. These individual groups or names will keep changing.

If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.

See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise, you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.

As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.

What we achieved was a nuclear pause, not a nuclear halt.

The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.

The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.

But if you – if what – the reports are true, what they’re saying is, is that as a consequence of us getting 30 million additional people health care, at the margins that’s going to increase our costs, we knew that.

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?