George H. W. Bush

Many schools include a service project as part of their curriculum, and many corporations have in-house projects for their employees or give them time off to do volunteer work.

Ageing’s alright, better than the alternative, which is not being here.

We know what works. Freedom Works. We know what’s right. Freedom is right.

What’s wrong with being a boring kind of guy?

I think I’d be a better president because I was in combat.

It’s no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another.

A considerable share of the world’s population still cannot afford comfortable housing, education and quality health care.

A truly independent press rejects the role of subordination to power and authority. It casts the orthodoxy to the winds, questions what “right-thinking people will accept without question,” tears aside the veil of tacit censorship…

If the nation is not capable of preserving itself and reproducing, if it loses it vital bearings and ideals, then it doesn’t need foreign enemies – it will fall apart on its own.

The unjustified swelling of the budgetary deficit and the accumulation of public debts are just as destructive as adventurous stock-jobbing.

The core of the anarchist tradition, as I understand it, is that power is always illegitimate, unless it proves itself to be legitimate. So the burden of proof is always on those who claim that some authoritarian hierarchic relation is legitimate.

I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any treat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.

I believe something is very wrong with the history of our country and how we have messed up the African National Congress.

While greatly honored internationally, Mandela remained on the US terrorist list until 2008, when at last a congressional resolution allowed him to enter the ‘land of the free’ without special dispensation.

The dynamic of revolutionary events is directly determined by swift, intense, and passionate changes in the psychology of classes which have already formed themselves before the revolution.

The international monetary fund recently [2014] did a study in which it concluded that virtually the entire profit of the big banks comes from the government insurance policy.

Karl Marx said, ‘The task is not just to understand the world but to change it.’ A variant to keep in mind is that if you want to change the world you’d better try to understand it. That doesn’t mean listening to a talk or reading a book, though that’s helpful sometimes. You learn from participating. You learn from others. You learn from the people you’re trying to organize. We all have to gain the understanding and the experience to formulate and implement ideas.

If the staff lacks policy guidance against which to test decisions, their decisions will be random.

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I’m beginning to believe it.

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

CO2 is the exhaling breath of our civilization, literally. … Changing that pattern requires a scope, a scale, a speed of change that is beyond what we have done in the past.