George Bernard Shaw

The worst sin… is… to be indifferent.

We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.

You don’t stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing.

The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

A miracle is an event which creates faith. That is the purpose and nature of miracles. Frauds deceive. An event which creates faith does not deceive: therefore it is not a fraud, but a miracle.

My mission is to lead the country out of a bad situation of corruption, depression and slavery. After I rid the country of these vices, I will then organize and supervise a general election of a genuinely democratic civilian government.

As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as they please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome.

The number of people killed by the sanctions in Iraq is greater than the total number of people killed by all weapons of mass destruction in all of history.

The business world was pretty upset by the advances in public welfare in the ’60s, in particular by Richard Nixon – it’s not too well understood, but he was the last New Deal president, and they regarded that as class treachery.

Fascism is nothing but capitalist reaction.

If I were in a swing state, a state that matters, and the choice were Clinton or Trump, I would vote against Trump. And by arithmetic that means hold your nose and vote for Clinton.

The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.

Now there were restrictions in the laws on campaign funding, but they’ve been slowly eroded. Citizens United pretty much dispensed with them. There’s still some limitations but not much.

Chechnya is part and parcel of the Russian Federation.

Few people understand the magnitude of the catastrophe that happened late in the 1980s when the Communist Party had failed to modernize the Soviet Union.

But I was amazed at how organized the Palestinian election authority was, how competent they were in setting up their polling places and the poll workers they had.

In politics a capable ruler must be guided by circumstances, conjectures and conjunctions.

Another way to solve the traffic problems of this country is to pass a law that only paid-for cars be allowed to use the highways.

Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government, and I will lead it as a party of government.

John McCain fought in Vietnam – I think that he has enough civilian blood on his hands.