Donald Trump

The media is really, the word, I think one of the greatest of all terms I’ve come up with is fake. I guess other people have used it perhaps over the years, but I’ve never noticed it.

There are no guarantees, but being ready sure beats being taken by surprise.

Focus is essential to success, and successful people are people who can focus.

People are tired of seeing politicians as all talk and no action.

The biggest risk we all face is not moving forward with what we’ve learned.

Kim Jong Un just stated that the Nuclear Button is on his desk at all times.Will someone from his depleted and food starved regime please inform him that I too have a Nuclear Button, but it is a much bigger and more powerful one than his, and my Button works!

Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts.

I do not want to be controlled by any superpower. I myself consider myself the most powerful figure in the world, and that is why I do not let any superpower control me.

The idea of neutral objectivity is at best misleading and often fraudulent. We cannot help but approach complex and controversial questions – especially those of human significance – with a definite point of view, with an ax to grind if you like…

…the Bible is probably the most genocidal book in the literary canon.

One should seek out an audience that matters — and furthermore (another important qualification), it should not be seen as an audience, but as a community of common concern in which one hopes to participate constructively. We should not be speaking to, but with.

Peace is preferable to war. But it’s not an absolute value, and so we always ask, ‘What kind of peace?’

There are both things in international law: the principle of territorial integrity and right to self-determination.

Legal aid is fundamentally important in a democratic, civilised society.

That diploma you hold in your hands today is really just your learner’s permit for the rest of the drive through life. Remember, you don’t have to be smarter than the next person, all you have to do is be willing to work harder than the next person.

The Russian people have their own cultural code, their own tradition.

It is necessary to suppress any extremist actions, on all sides, regardless of their origin.

The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.

How could this Y2K be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?

Exaggerating slightly, in totalitarian countries the state decides the official line and everyone must then comply. Democratic societies operate differently. The line is never presented as such, merely implied. This involves brainwashing people who are still at liberty.

Once wide coercive powers are given to government agencies…such powers cannot be effectively controlled.