Henry Ford

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

Wars are necessary to teach us lessons we seem unable to learn any other way.

Every one knows that insufficient rest and gorging are not good for anyone, either physically or mentally.

I don’t like to read books. They muss up my mind.

If I had asked them what they had wanted, they would have said a faster horse.

History is more or less bunk.

The Bush administration works closely with a network of rapid response digital brownshirts who work to pressure reporters and their editors for ‘undermining support for our troops.’

Public servants are paid to serve the American people. Do it well.

Israeli interests are not necessarily in harmony with the American interests.

Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.

The more powerful you are, the more you dominate others, the more you create justifications for that in ideology and education and media and so on. If you’ve got your boot on someone else’s neck, it’s typical to provide a justification for it.

If you assume that there is no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, that there are opportunities to change things, then there is a possibility that you can contribute to making a better world.

[on Jeremy Cobyn] It is a different type of Labour Party. Can it be taken back? I don’t know

I will fight for you with every breath in my body – and I will never, ever let you down.

Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts.

The price of being close to the President is delivering bad news. You fail him if you don’t tell him the truth. Others won’t do it.

The global environment crisis is, as we say in Tennessee, real as rain, and I cannot stand the thought of leaving my children with a degraded earth and a diminished future.

Americans have a severe disease – worse than AIDS. It’s called the winner’s complex.

Obviously, I’m always thinking about it. A successor, in the ordinary sense of the word – no, the Russian people, the voters will decide who that will be. But of course I think that we should raise a new, young generation of leaders, responsible people who will be able to take on the responsibility of Russia.

You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.

The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph was far more radical than that from telephone to email!