Politics Quotes

"I'm nauseatingly pro-American. I would have come here from any country."

"The United States is not for democracy in Iraq, it's for setting up a puppet government."

"Anybody can be good in the country."

"You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements."

"Cyber war takes place largely in secret, unknown to the general public on both sides."

"I don't know how you overcome the dearth of scientists in the government positions."

"There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others."

"President Obama's biggest weakness is weakness."

"We human beings do a lot of dumb things, and war is certainly the dumbest."

"England is a nation of shopkeepers."

"While the lab plays an enormous role, research is also influenced by inner peace of mind and one's family environment, depending on what stage of one's life and career a scientist is at."

"There is a growing feeling that perhaps Texas is really another country, a place where the skies, the disasters, the diamonds, the politicians, the women, the fortunes, the football players and the murders are all bigger than anywhere else."

"Unfortunately, we force people to break the law in order to get any kind of mental health treatment."

"Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them."

"I don't know what's more embarrassing, these musicians and actors talking about politics in interviews or the media actually giving them credibility about it. It's absurd that a celebrity could speak out on the economy or politics with no more justification than a hit album or a movie."

"We're one of the most highly regulated industries, and we have to pay attention to what government is doing."

"I've taken clowns into the war in Bosnia, the refugee camps of Kosovo, and none of those are any more important than clowning in a subway or an elevator or just walking down the street."

"The First Amendment only says 'Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.' It can disrespect all it wants."

"I knew that the Hague Convention prohibited the use of poison in war. I didn't know the details of the terms of the Convention, but I did know of that prohibition."

"As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar it will cease to be popular."

"Politicisation of terrorism for narrow gains is not good for society in general and the country in particular."

"Terrorism should be seen in the light of the country's security and not from the narrow perspective of caste, creed and religion."

"When you have been born in a war like me, living in a war as a child, when you have been in wars as a war correspondent all your life - trust me! You develop a form of fatalism; you are always ready to die."

"I've always disliked kamikazes, that is, people who commit suicide in order to kill others. Starting with the Japanese ones from World War II. I never considered them Pietro Miccas who torch the powder and go up with the citadel in order to block the arrival of the enemy troops at Torino. I never considered them soldiers."

"India has the opportunity to be a leader in genetic engineering, It has institutions that no other country has."

"American businesses deserve a federal government that doesn't stand in their way, not one that tries to chase them overseas."

"Protests are fine. But in South Carolina we believe in the rule of law, and the people of this state should never doubt that as governor, I will enforce it."

"One of the crises that we have to deal with is a crisis of law enforcement officials that are not physically capable enough to handle without taking out the gun."

"Puppet Papademos is in place, and as Athens caught fire on Sunday night he rather took my breath away - he said violence and destruction have no place in a democratic country."

"One of the main arguments that I make in my new book, 'The Great Degeneration,' is that the rule of law in the U.S. is becoming the rule of lawyers."

"Without education, your children can never really meet the challenges they will face. So it's very important to give children education and explain that they should play a role for their country."

"People respond in accordance to how you relate to them. If you approach them on the basis of violence, that's how they'll react. But if you say, 'We want peace, we want stability,' we can then do a lot of things that will contribute towards the progress of our society."

"You would think that a country that goes to war allegedly to spread democracy would practice it in its own country."

"The name Muhammad is the most common name in the world. In all the countries around the world - Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon - there are more Muhammads than anything else. When I joined the Nation of Islam and became a Muslim, they gave me the most famous name because I was the champ."

"I want to give my compliments to Australia. Ever since your government paid a few million dollars for a Jackson Pollack painting, I figure that it must be a marvellous country."

"Everyone says we have our first African American president. Has there ever been a Jewish president? An Italian president? They don't say a damn thing about that. You think we're still fighting the Civil War or something. If you want to mention it in passing, OK. But don't dwell on it."

"Behind a smoke screen of high-profile female appointees and soothing slogans, George W. Bush is waging war on women."

"Americans need to educate themselves, from elementary school onward, about what their country has done abroad. And they need to play a more active role in ensuring that what the United States does abroad is not merely in keeping with a foreign policy elite's sense of realpolitik but also with the American public's own sense of American values."

"When I go to Iran, I see... that there are all different shades and colors in Iran, from atheist to religious zealot. So Iran is no different than any other country. I mean, they are connected with the rest of the world."

"Even with the best intentions, you can have a nuclear war, a nuclear holocaust, through miscalculation, through accidents."

"If we are addressing the issue of weapons of mass destruction, we need to send a uniform, consistent message that there is zero tolerance to any country who is developing weapons of mass destruction, North Korea included."

"We are a nation of immigrants. We are the children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren of the ones who wanted a better life, the driven ones, the ones who woke up at night hearing that voice telling them that life in that place called America could be better."

"We do not accept that ours will ever be a nation of haves and have-nots. We must always be a nation of haves and soon-to-haves."

"Our morbidly obese federal government needs not just behavior modification but bariatric surgery."

"And before our current legislature adjourns, we intend to become the first state of full and true choice by saying to every low and middle-income Hoosier family, if you think a non-government school is the right one for your child, you're as entitled to that option as any wealthy family; here's a voucher, go sign up."

"If, however, the success of a politician is to be measured by the degree in which he is able personally to influence the course of politics, and attach to himself a school of political thought, then Mr. Mill, in the best meaning of the words, has succeeded."

"It is inappropriate for the Bush administration to trump up a case in which we are ballyhooed into war."

"At the end of the day, when it comes time to make that decision, as president, all you have to guide you are your values, and your vision, and the life experiences that make you who you are."

"Every day, the people I meet inspire me... every day, they make me proud... every day they remind me how blessed we are to live in the greatest nation on earth."

"For me, a better democracy is a democracy where women do not only have the right to vote and to elect but to be elected."