I love soccer.
One has to be insincere and promise something which you cannot fulfill. So you either have to be a fool who does not understand what you are promising, or deliberately be lying.
I am not a woman, so I don’t have bad days.
I am not prejudiced in any way.
I have a private life in which I do not permit interference. It must be respected.
Between major countries, there certainly always are some common ground and points of tension.
A considerable share of the world’s population still cannot afford comfortable housing, education and quality health care.
It’s alarming that military intervention in internal conflicts in foreign countries has become commonplace for the United States.
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.
Power that isn’t really justified by the will of the governed should be dismantled.
Public servants are paid to serve the American people. Do it well.
The revolution does not need historians.
Make decisions about the President’s personal security. He can overrule you, but don’t ask him to be the one to counsel caution.
We want peace and a political solution to the situation in Chechnya.
It is reasonably clear, both from current actions and the historical record, that substances tend to be criminalized when they are associated with the so-called dangerous classes, that the criminalization of certain substances is a technique of social control.
I am not a puppet. I was not made by the West to go to the West or to any other country.
To escape the impact of a well-functioning system of propaganda that bars dissent and unwanted fact while fostering lively debate within the permitted bounds is remarkably difficult.
You cannot reform your society or institution without opening your mind.
Imagine, a September 11 with weapons of mass destruction. It’s not 3,000. It’s tens of thousands of innocent men, women and children.
People apply for a job, are asked to work for three or four weeks on probation and are then told to go and are replaced by colleagues. There are shops even in the West End [of London] using large numbers of totally unpaid staff on a permanent basis.
Everyone who is critical of Israeli policy is deluged by crazed messages intended to flood their email system or, more insidiously, passwords are accessed and messages sent out under their name! I’m sure it’s illegal. It’s also an effort to undermine free speech.
I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself.