George Bernard Shaw

Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation.

The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.

Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned.

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

No one making less than $250,000 under Barack Obama’s plan will see one single penny of their tax raised, whether it’s their capital gains tax, their income tax, investment tax, any tax.

We are no longer a leader. Putin has become the leader, and it’s an embarassment to our country.

Real liberty exists only there where exploitation has been annihilated, where no oppression of some peoples by others exists, where there is no unemployment and pauperism, where a person does not tremble because tomorrow he may lose his job, home and bread.

You can build a throne of bayonets, but you can’t sit on it for long.

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

Can you imagine what the outcry would be if Snoop Dogg, failing career and all, had aimed and fired the gun at President Obama? Jail time!

The Recovery Act is working, but it’s going to continue to work. It’s not over. A lot’s going to happen this summer. And even after the summer, there’s more to come with the act.

I don’t read books by people who have betrayed the Motherland.

The electoral college is a disaster for a democracy.

Nobody respects a country with a poor army, but everybody respects a country with a good army. I raise my toast to the Finnish army

Maybe they have nothing else to do in America but to talk about me.

As far as we are concerned, we Syria have not changed.

George Orwell wrote that nationalists, who are practically the whole intellectual class of a country, not only do not disapprove of the crimes of their own state, but have the remarkable capacity not even to see them.

We will chase terrorists everywhere. If in an airport, then in the airport. So if we find them in the toilet, excuse me, we’ll rub them out in the outhouse. And that’s it, case closed.