Cullen Hightower

Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else’s can shorten it.

If you assume that there is no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, that there are opportunities to change things, then there is a possibility that you can contribute to making a better world.

If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is not sufficient justification for the use of coercion.

It’s not going to be easy to proceed. There are going to be barriers, difficulties, hardships, failures- it’s inevitable. But unless the process that is taking place here and elsewhere in the country and around the world, unless that continues to grow and becomes a major force in the social and political world, the chances for a decent future are not very high.

What I notice about men, all men, is that their order is me, my family, God is in there somewhere, but me is first.

At last, Russia has returned to the world arena as a strong state – a country that others heed and that can stand up for itself.

[living at the White House] This isn’t about us. There’s so much history here that no one family can claim this space as their own.

I would rather take a political risk in pursuit of peace than to risk peace in pursuit of politics.

George Bush taking credit for the wall coming down is like the rooster taking credit for the sun rising.

It cannot in the opinion of His Majesty’s Government be classified as slavery in the extreme acceptance of the word without some risk of terminological inexactitude.

This nuclear option is ultimately an example of the arrogance of power.

I say again that I am an atheist. I do not believe in God.

Our society, including the liberals, must understand that there must be order.

The more you can increase fear of drugs, crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all of the people.

Economic activity is moving from the Atlantic ocean to the Pacific ocean… Russia has a certain natural advantage because it also borders the Pacific Ocean.

I am the hero of Africa.