Whenever a fellow tells me he’s bipartisan, I know he’s going to vote against me.

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

I’ve watched a lot of people who became famous who completely change and I think it’s because they tend to believe all the hype that’s out there. I don’t think there’s that much hype about me.

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

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

I love being in the United States Senate.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

Obamacare sucks, it can’t be fixed.

It’s sometimes comical to hear the younger generation ask their peers to repeat themselves.

I still make sure to go, at least once every year, to a country where things cannot be taken for granted, and where there is either too much law and order or too little.

A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who’s been dead for 15 years.

Stand-up is hard.

When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.

Empire and liberty.

People do not make wars; governments do.

Changing is not just changing the things outside of us. First of all we need the right view that transcends all notions including of being and non-being, creator and creature, mind and spirit. That kind of insight is crucial for transformation and healing.

Is everything funny? For me, yes. There’s a positive to every negative. Even my divorce? For me, yes. If you go back and look at it, why it happened or how it happened, there’s something in there that’ll make you laugh.

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

Suppose I criticise Iran. What impact does that have? The only impact it has is in fortifying those who want to carry out policies I don’t agree with, like bombing.

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do.

In Beverly Hills… they don’t throw their garbage away. They make it into television shows.

The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.

I consider myself a moderate Republican. I have very, very moderate social views, and I’m pretty strong on, on defense matters.

When I write, it’s like choosing which shoes I’m going to put on. More often than not, my lyrics are personal – but I sometimes have to put myself in other people’s shoes.

Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.

Part of the problem is there are people in Washington, D.C. in positions of power to whom the border is just a nuisance, and I think some of them believe that illegal immigration is a moral good. It is not. It undermines legal immigration.

Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?

What Britain needs is an iron lady.

Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.

There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.

An onion can make people cry but there’s never been a vegetable that can make people laugh.

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

In terms of doing work and in terms of learning and evolving as a person, you just grow more when you get more people’s perspectives… I really try and live the mission of the company and… keep everything else in my life extremely simple.

I believe everyone should have a broad picture of how the universe operates and our place in it. It is a basic human desire. And it also puts our worries in perspective.

I will not run for president. No, nope, not going to do it.

People who think you could wave a magic wand and the legacy of the past will be over are blind.

How can a president not be an actor?

If you can make a girl laugh, you can make her do anything.

I love being able to be political without any political affiliation.

Being happy is a matter of personal taste.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

You can’t just have slogans, you can’t just have catchy phrases. You have to have an agenda. And I think what the Republican Party has to do, if it’s going to incorporate the tea party efforts in it, is to come up with an agenda that the American people can see, touch, and actually believe in, and something they believe in.

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.

John F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occupies the minds of the few but brings danger to the many.

My son Emilio is running for Congress to continue the fight for social justice.

Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return?

Since I’m the president and Democrats have controlled the House and the Senate, it’s understandable that people are saying, you know, ‚What have you done?‘

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?

My wife told me if there is any rumors about me, it better be about politics and not about my social life.

A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.

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.

I think that, ah, I’m a very goofy sort of person in many ways.

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

Go up in an airplane. Go high enough, and it’s like we don’t even exist.

When I’m a director, I look at myself the actor as a completely different person. It’s somebody else up there, an actor playing a role. I keep myself out of it.

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That’s relativity.