George Bernard Shaw

The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.

Ladies and gentleman are permitted to have friends in the kennel, but not in the kitchen.

Most people do not pray; they only beg.

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can’t sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can’t sleep with the window open.

Major terrorists are provided refuge in Florida. The late Bosch is one, Orlando Bosch. Posada is another. You remember there was something called the Bush Doctrine, Bush II: A country that harbors terrorists is the same as the terrorists themselves.

I give to everybody. When they call, I give. And do you know what? When I need something from them two years later, three years later, I call them, they are there for me.

If you want my personal attitude, I would tell you that I don’t care about a person’s sexual orientation.

International terrorism is throwing down a challenge, and not just to Russia.

The most basic duty of government is to defend the lives of its own citizens. Any government that fails to do so is a government unworthy to lead.

The North has been held back by out of touch Westminster politicians. Let’s hand power to northern communities to manage their transport systems.

The glory of being a carrier pilot has certainly worn off.

Our party has been accused of fooling the public by calling tax increases ‘revenue enhancement’. Not so. No one was fooled.

Big institutions, like Goldman Sachs really don’t have to worry much about systemic risk because we don’t have a market system. So therefore they can run cap in hand to the nanny state and say ‘bail me out’ and that’s what happens.

One fundamental goal of any well-crafted indoctrination program is to direct attention elsewhere, away from effective power, its roots, and the disguises it assumes.

Distress is so severe that among white middle-aged Americans, mortality is actually increasing, something unheard of in functioning societies apart from war or pestilence. There are similar phenomena in Europe under the ‘business first’ (‘neoliberal’/’austerity’) assault.

We want peace and a political solution to the situation in Chechnya.

This is not a battle between the United States of America and terrorism, but between the free and democratic world and terrorism.

Nobody believes the official spokesman… but everybody trusts an unidentified source.

It should be known that Israel is based on treachery.