George H. W. Bush

I can’t ever remember sitting around and saying, ‘gosh let’s hurry up and get these debates going, that’ll win it for me.’ Nope.

You cannot be President of the United States if you don’t have faith. Remember Lincoln, going to his knees in times of trial in the Civil War and all that stuff.

Gulf Lesson One is the value of airpower.

We don’t want an America that is closed to the world. What we want is a world that is open to America.

We are not the sum of our possessions.

You have to understand that people that are hurting are going to criticize.

Since the white working class cannot be mobilized to support the class enemy on the basis of their actual programs, the ‘radical insurgency’ called ‘the Republican Party’ appeals to its constituency on what are called ‘social-cultural issues’: religion, fear, racism, nationalism.

History will point out some of the things I did wrong and some of the things I did right.

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise human science is at a loss.

I was shocked more than most white people to find we had a black President!

In politics, every day is filled with numerous opportunities for serious error. Enjoy it.

Some of the most moving experiences I’ve had are just in black churches in the South, during the Civil Rights Movement, where people were getting beaten, killed, really struggling for the most elementary rights.

Presidential leadership needn’t always cost money. Look for low- and no-cost options. They can be surprisingly effective.

The task of the government is not only to pour honey into a cup, but sometimes to give bitter medicine.

Europeans are dying out. Don’t you understand that? And same-sex marriages don’t produce children. Do you want to survive by drawing migrants? But society cannot adapt so many migrants.

If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.

One of they key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace. Good people don’t go into government.

If people can just pour into the country illegally, you don’t have a country.

I think we need more young people; we need to elect young people to government. We need to give them a chance, in the media, in politics, in democracy.

When the interests of the privileged and powerful are the guiding commitment of both political factions, people who do not share these interests tend to stay home.

If peace is wanted in the region, the Kurdish people’s right to self-determination must be accepted.- Jeremy Corbyn