The United States wants to be part of the solution to its problems and not, in part, the maker of their problems.

Shortly, the public will be unable to reason or think for themselves. They'll only be able to parrot the information they've been given on the previous night's news.

People, governments and economies of all nations must serve the needs of multinational banks and corporations.

Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate.

Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen.

Today it is infinitely easier to kill one million people than to control one million people.

The key point to bear in mind is that Russia cannot be in Europe without Ukraine also being in Europe, whereas Ukraine can be in Europe without Russia being in Europe.

The scope of America's global hegemony is admittedly great, but its depth is shallow, limited by both domestic and external restraints.

The mistakes of the Iraq war are not only tactical and strategic, but historical. It is essentially a war of colonialism, attempted in the post-colonial age.

According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahadeen began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan, 24 Dec 1979.

One has to understand what the enemy is all about: the enemy's history, the enemy's culture, the enemy's aspirations. If you understand these well, you can perhaps move towards peace.

In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.

I have no regrets from my past only pride over how far I have come to be the person I am today and hope that tomorrow I will be even better.

I'm cocky. It's different. Cocky is playful.

Loyalty, up and down the line. That's one quality an organization must have to be successful.

I'm just an individual who doesn't feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I'm working for me.

Real change isn't found in some new way to think about yourself, but in freedom from the need to think about yourself at all.

I can never make up my mind if I'm happy being a flute player, or if I wish I were Eric Clapton.

I've had the same friends since I was in kindergarten.

Collective bargaining isn't a right, it is an expensive entitlement. Once and for all, we are giving the taxpayers a voice in this debate. We put the power back in the hands of the people.

Some of us learn from other people’s mistakes and the rest of us have to be other people.