There is no condition for forgiveness.
I do not feel betrayed. . . . He has a fine record. He is a national hero. (On Oliver L North's work)
The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.
It is the Soviet Union that runs against the tide of history. . . . [It is] the march of freedom and democracy which will leave Marxism-Leninism on the ash heap of history, as it has left other tyrannies which stifle the freedom and muzzle the self-expression of the people.
You and I are told we must choose between a left or right, but I suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down. Up to man's age-old dream -- the maximum of individual freedom consistent with order --or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism. Regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives, those who would sacrifice freedom for security have embarked on this downward path.
In an ironic sense, Karl Marx was right. We are witnessing today a great revolutionary crisis, a crisis where the demands of the economic order are conflicting directly with those of the political order. But the crisis is happening not in the. . . West, but in the home of Marxism-Leninism, the Soviet Union. It is the Soviet Union that runs against the tide of history by denying human freedom and human dignity to its citizens.
The future doesn't belong to the light-hearted. It belongs to the brave.
We are all feeding from each other, all the time, every day.
I don't think success is what we've made of ourselves; I think it's what we've made of others.
And if you look around, if you listen to some music nowdays, I'm not so optimistic. . . I have the feeling that some of the young people I've met they think already, before they start playing, they think already about the product: how can we sell it. . . . maybe my view is really very old fashioned nowadays, but I think art at any times needs time for development and this fast food bullshit is not working. . . younger guys: take your time, music is really a thing of long terms, actually it's a lifelong thing to learn and to develop your own stuff.
It ought to be a crime for any woman to have children that writes books.