Turkey must find its place if, of course, it can heal its internal sores, and none is more malignant than the perennial Kurdish issue.

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.

One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling.

The soul is healed by being with children.

Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.

If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.

The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.

If you’re looking for the safe choice, you shouldn’t be supporting a black guy named Barack Obama to be the next leader of the free world.

It isn’t generally the case that liberals dominate entire hierarchies. That isn’t generally how it works, because the hierarchies are usually set up so that conservatives fill up the hierarchies; it’s in the nature of hierarchy.

Before I became a chief minister, I never thought that one day I’d be the chief minister.

The label ‚liberal‘ or ‚conservative,‘ any – every time I hear that, I think of the great Gilbert and Sullivan song from ‚Iolanthe.‘ It goes, ‚Every gal and every boy that’s born alive is either a little liberal or else a little conservative.‘ What do those labels mean? It depends on whose ox is being gored.

In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.

Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.

Facts are not liberals‘ strong suit. Rhetoric is.

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

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

Patience is key for getting over a breakup. That, and trailing off your interaction after the breakup.

Grief is the price we pay for love.

Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.

Bitterness is cancer – it eats upon the host. It doesn’t do anything to the object of its displeasure.

Many things shall change in Cuba, but they shall change because of our efforts and despite the United States. Perhaps that empire shall crumble first.

There might be some serious fun in politics.

I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

Be thankful we’re not getting all the government we’re paying for.

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.

Forgotten is forgiven.

Governments are not representative. They have their own power, serving segments of the population that are dominant and rich.

Obviously, you go through a lot of emotional turmoil in a divorce.

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

Putin goes to bed at night knowing he can break all the rules, and the West will follow all the rules.

When Hillary served in the Senate, I saw her work day and night as a member of the Armed Services Committee – working with Republicans and Democrats to keep our military strong and protect our troops and their families.

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

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.

When we give ourselves the chance to let go of all our tension, the body’s natural capacity to heal itself can begin to work.

Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.

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.

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don’t allow our bodies to heal, and we don’t allow our minds and hearts to heal.

History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.

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.

There is too much government today. We’ve got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people, and for the people.

I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.

Only a liberal senator from Massachusetts would say that a 49 percent increase in funding for education was not enough.

There will be no whitewash in the White House.

So many people live with anger and unforgiveness, and many of them are Christians.

There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.

It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it… anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

I’m going to be so much better a president for having been at the CIA that you’re not going to believe it.

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

Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.

People are finding it harder and harder to relate to foreign policy.

Political chaos is connected with the decay of language… one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.

I don’t usually admire Sarah Palin, but when she was making fun of this ‚hopey changey stuff,‘ she was right: there was nothing there.

Everything isn’t political.

There is no gambling like politics.

A lot of people are realizing they had the wool pulled over their eyes by Obama.

Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.

Barack Obama would not be President if he were dark skin. You know what I mean? That’s just the truth. I might not be as successful as I am now if I was dark skin.