Bernard Quotes

Government is the art of the momentary feasible, of the least bad attainable, and not of the rationally most desirable.

[Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached.

I never felt that there was anything enviable in youth. I cannot recall that any of us, as youths, admired our condition to excess or had a desire to prolong it.

The amphibious landing of U.S. Marines on September 1950 at Inchon, on the west coast of Korea, was one of the most audacious and spectacularly successful amphibious landings in all naval history.

We would get rid of assault weapons. There would not be an assault weapon in the United States, whether it's for a show or someone having it in a collection.

We've had many times when a judge makes decisions that are inaccurate, and that's why we have an appeal processes

Madness ends sometimes. The Gods decree it, not man.

A man does not see where he treads in battle, for he is watching the enemy.

I sometimes wonder what would have happened if the first book had not sold... doesn't bear thinking about, but I suppose we'd have made it work somehow.

We don't build,' I said to my son, 'we just destroy.

So far it's 43 books in 25 years.

Politics is a way of ruling in divided societies without undue violence...politics is not just a necessary evil; it is a realistic good.

The attempt to politicize everything is the destruction of politics. When everything is seen as relevant to politics, than politics has in fact become totalitarian.

The idea of a rational bureaucracy, of skill, merit, and consistency, is essential to all modern states.

Too often the revolutionary is the man who must create order in the chaos left by failed conservatives.

If a government is to do great new things, it will need more support. If a government is to change the world, it will need mass support. This is one of the discoveries of modern government.

Where government is impossible, politics is impossible.

Politics is too often regarded as a poor relation, inherently dependent and subsidiary; it is rarely praised as something with a life and character of its own.

BOREDOM with established truths is a great enemy of free men.

There is no great danger to politics in the desire for certainty at any price.

To Marx the claim of the theory of ideology is that all doctrine is a derivative of social circumstance.

Politics has rough manners, but it is a very useful thing.

Certainly if the fundamental problem of society is that demands are infinite and resources are always limited, politics, not economics is the master science.

Quotation brings to many people one of the intensest joys of living.

Art is man determined to die sane.

Art is the terms of an armistice signed with fate.

Wonderful to see with the whole family. It's like travelling from dynasty to dynasty, from one Chinese region to another.

The coachs job is to get the best players and get them to play together.

I don't know about technology and I don't know about finance and accounting.

I know I lost my temper, but I tried to be human along the way.

I used practically all the money I had available.

I wasn't ever advised by Scott Sullivan of anything ever being wrong.

There is a constant battle between Cogsy and I as who's the biggest psycho in the band

I saw my first gig here actually (Festival Hall in Brisbane) Duran Duran.

I'm not particularly worried by any of the songs we've written in the past, except for some of the really early stuff which is total tripe.

Except for talk radio, liberals pretty much control the culture.

No, we don't sit around in dark corners and plan strategies on how we're going to slant the news. We don't have to. It comes naturally to most reporters.

As a matter of fact, you know, Jesus probably would be, except for one or two issues, a liberal Democrat if he were around today.

I don't think liberals in the media are really that much different from liberals outside the media.

Journalists love to show their compassion.

We need to build a beautiful granite and bronze monument in our nation's capital to honor American heroes, unsung American heroes. And those unsung American heroes are the rich.

Try to imagine an America without rich people. Rich people contribute a lot to this country.

You know, I was at CBS News for 28 years. I may have run an unidentified source. Frankly, I don't remember.

Liberals, many of them, not all of them, but many of them are obsessed with race. They see everything through a filter of race.

Bill Maher fancies himself the reincarnation of Lenny Bruce.

Don't pretend to be a journalist if you're not a journalist.

Look, everybody in journalism has a reputation of sorts.

I admire Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly a lot because I think they're standup guys.

I've never seen class warfare as nasty as it is today, as a result of tax debate.

A lot of so-called rich, according to this legislation, make $250,000. That's a lot of money, but it is not rich.