In less than twenty-five years. . . the motor-car will be obsolete, because the aeroplane will run along the ground as well as fly over it.
Being in jail is difficult too because it's like being in a graveyard, you can't do much.
Democracy is the best revenge.
The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress.
We learned at an early age that it was men's interpretation of our religion that restricted women's opportunities, not our religion itself. Islam in fact had been quite progressive toward women from its inception.
No, I am not pregnant. I am fat. And, as the Prime Minister, its my right to be fat if I want to.
America's greatest contribution to the world is its concept of democracy, its concept of freedom, freedom of action, freedom of speech, and freedom of thought.
It's harder for a leader to be born in a palace than to be born in a cabin.
Everything is calm, happier, and less stressed. As soon as you drive into the park, it’s like you’ve entered an oasis.
To reduce the imagination to a state of slavery --even though it would mean the elimination of what is commonly called happiness --is to betray all sense of absolute justice within oneself. Imagination alone offers me some intimation of what can be.
. . . The British press. . . [claimed that Tony] Blair was simply Bush's poodle - a favorite phrase, bewilderingly popular, although it made no sense - and that he was ignoring the will of the British people. Considering the hacks had spent Blair's first six years in office condemning him for relying on focus groups and opinion polls for his policies - in other words, paying attention to nothing but the will of the people, or at least their whims - that seemed a little rich to me, but as I said, logical consistency has never figured highly in the British media's scale of values.