Very early in my childhood I associated poverty, toil, unemployment, drunkenness, cruelty, quarreling, fighting, debts, jail with large families.

On the contrary, the most urgent problem today is how to limit and discourage the over-fertility of the mentally and physically defective.

No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.

How are we to breed a race of human thoroughbreds unless we follow the same plan? We must make this country into a garden of children instead of a disorderly back lot overrun with human weeds.

Birth control must lead ultimately to a cleaner race.

Woman must not accept; she must challenge. She must not be awed by that which has been built up around her; she must reverence that woman in her which struggles for expression.

No woman can call herself free who does not control her own body.

Eugenics is ... the most adequate and thorough avenue to the solution of racial, political and social problems.

Blacks, soldiers, and Jews are a menace to the race.

Against the State, against the Church, against the silence of the medical profession, against the whole machinery of dead institutions of the past, the woman of today arises.

I accepted an invitation to talk to the women's branch of the Ku Klux Klan.

Fill your heart with pure love

You have to be smart to get what you want.

My adversary is the world of finance.

That is a very good question. I don't know the answer. But can you tell me the name of a classical Greek shoemaker?

I'm a pessimist, so I find everything limiting.

If you are as happy in entering the White House as I shall feel on returning to Wheatland, you are a happy man indeed.

As an observer of markets - whenever everyone focuses on one thing - like Greece and Europe - maybe they miss issues that are far more important - such as a meaningful slowdown in India and China.

I love acting and I love it in all its different manifestations.

...the more a person becomes spiritually minded or advances towards God, the more tolerant he becomes and the less differentiation he sees.

Would anyone else like to say anything nice about women?