You think the world was shocked when Nixon resigned? Wait till I whup George Foreman’s behind.

I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way.

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

There are some members of the House leadership whose only mission in life is to demonize the president.

I have been very happy in the House of Representatives.

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.

No one even knows one percent of the fabulous history of Man; but thanks to history, we know about occurrences that go beyond the limits of the imaginable.

Latin America has much richer resources. You’d expect it to be far more advanced than East Asia, but it had the disadvantage of being under imperialist wings.

The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.

History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.

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

In our age there is no such thing as ‚keeping out of politics.‘ All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.

I have considered voting Conservative because I am so against the Labour party.

Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

We’ve persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people – a belief that out of the ashes of war, a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we have met our responsibility. Now, it’s time to turn the page.

History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

There is obviously a gap between the public’s perception of the role of U.S. foreign policy and the elite’s perception.

The upward course of a nation’s history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

In the history of medicine, it is not always the great scientist or the learned doctor who goes forward to discover new fields, new avenues, new ideas.

There has been a huge attack against private sector unions. Actually, that’s been going on since the Second World War.

Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.

Even after Independence, we have had to face the poison of casteism and communalism. How long these evils will continue? Whom does it benefit?

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.

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.

Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. We will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us God.

After Hiroshima was bombed, I saw a photograph of the side of a house with the shadows of the people who had lived there burned into the wall from the intensity of the bomb. The people were gone, but their shadows remained.

I became a Republican in 1951, the first year I could vote.

If I don’t run for president, we’ll all be OK.

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.

What is politics? Political system is equal to development politics plus political politics.

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.

Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?

I’ve never seen America as an imperialist or colonialist or meddling country.

There has come into being a kind of a Shia belt from Tehran through Baghdad to Beirut. And this gives Iran the opportunity to reconstruct the ancient Persian Empire – this time under the Shia label.

The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land.

The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.

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

Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.

I don’t see the wisdom in modern politicians that I once saw in men like Dean Acheson, David Bruce, or George Marshall. In my day, the northeastern establishment dominated foreign policy formulation, but the composition and distribution of our population is very different today.

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.

At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.

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

Democracy is worth dying for, because it’s the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.

I think the materialist conception of history is valid.

Yup, the whole birther movement was racist.

The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them.

Contention existed before the earth was formed.

The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.

I have a deep, deep belief that if I tell you I’m going to crack you with a clean shot to the chin inside one minute of the first round and you will be unconscious, well, then that’s what will happen.

When you think about it, Adolf Hitler was the first pop star.

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

For my name and memory I leave to men’s charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.

I had just as much support from Republicans as I did Democrats when I ran for president. But I should have organized the Democratic Party to get me re-elected.

I’m the president of the United States. I’m not the emperor of the United States.

I don’t have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I’m left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct.

Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we’re hardwired not to always think clearly when we’re scared. And the country’s scared.

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don’t care what they say, they like it.

One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring.