Some wars have been due to the lust of rulers for power and glory, or to revenge to wipe out the humiliation of a former defeat.

Some think the worst horrors of war might be avoided by an international agreement not to use atomic bombs. This is a vain hope.

After the First World War the economic problem was no longer one of production. It was the problem of finding markets to get the output of industry and agriculture dispersed and consumed.

The real evil of the Russian communist state is not communism. It is the secret police and the concentration camp.

It is said that those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. It may well be that a war neurosis stirred up by propaganda of fear and hatred is the prelude to destruction.

When the fabric of society is so rigid that it cannot change quickly enough, adjustments are achieved by social unrest and revolutions.

As we have seen, the wireless and the airplane have made the world so small and nations so dependent on each other that the only alternative to war is the United States of the World.

We are now physically, politically, and economically one world and nations so interdependent that the absolute national sovereignty of nations is no longer possible.

The increase of territory and power of empires by force of arms has been the policy of all great powers, and it has always been possible to get the approval of their state religion.

Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival.

Measured in time of transport and communication, the whole round globe is now smaller than a small European country was a hundred years ago.

I listen to music for emotion and I get zero emotion from rap.

Condemn me. It does not matter. History will absolve me.

The best reason to go to the movies is to be with other people. Eating the popcorn, being with other people you don't know.

Today's accent may be on youth, but the stress is still on the parents.

My time has not yet come either; some are born posthumously.

I went camping in the Maasai Mara and we moved site every night. I had no idea how spectacular it would be, how removed from ordinary life, or how many animals we would see.

... it's hard to be politically conscious and upwardly mobile at the same time.

We can say, "if you want government money, you have to make this data public - you have to share it."

One question you never want to ask God is, 'What's wrong with me - because He'll tell you.

Republican voters already hated Democrats so much that [Bill] Clinton and [Barack] Obama didn't really have much impact.