Kanye West

As a musician, African American, guy out in Hollywood, all these different things, you know, everyone around me tried to pick my candidate for me, and then told me every time I said I liked Trump that I couldn’t say it out loud or my career would be over, or I’d get kicked out of the black community – because blacks, we’re supposed to have a monolithic thought, we can only be Democrats.

History’s gonna be harder to make than I thought.

How about dreaming out loud? How about feeling that something can happen to make the world better and inspire people? Is that OK for one second?

It’s like telling Michelangelo: ‘I know you painted this dope angel, that was really good, but Michelangelo, I don’t think you can paint a cow.’

Bravery is more important than perfection.- Kanye West

I want to change the stigma of crazy, of mental health – period.

The basic idea which runs right through modern history and modern liberalism is that the public has got to be marginalized. The general public are viewed as no more than ignorant and meddlesome outsiders, a bewildered herd.

Look at those hands, are they small hands? And, [Republican rival Marco Rubio] referred to my hands: ‘If they’re small, something else must be small.’ I guarantee you there’s no problem. I guarantee.

[living at the White House] This isn’t about us. There’s so much history here that no one family can claim this space as their own.

Despite all the achievements of civilisation, the human being is still one of the most vulnerable creatures on earth.

Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it’s important.

Major military operations, particularly involving Russian armed forces, have ended. There isn’t even a need for them anymore.

Words are one thing – deeds something entirely different. Fine words are a mask to cover shady deeds. A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.

It is difficult to say which is more menacing. But both of [points of war danger -Japan and Germany] exist and both are smoldering. In comparison with these two principal focal points of the war danger, the Italo-Ethiopian war represents an episode.

I think the American people should express their preferences, and we’ll accept their choice.

It was not known in 1945 that we were not only entering the nuclear age, but entering a new geological epoch, what geologists call the Anthropocene, an epoch in which human activity is having severe and deleterious effects on the environment in which human and other life can survive.

Let’s just be smart this time. I’m looking for smart.

When one person dies, it’s a tragedy, but when a million people die, it’s a statistic.

More time and at least a degree of reasonableness in the treatment of the Labour Party. Because the message that we’re putting out on austerity hasn’t fundamentally changed. There’s been an enormous barrier in getting it across, but now I think a lot of people understand what we’re saying and why we’re saying it.

All of it was invented by people who oppose President Trump to undermine his legitimacy.- Vladimir Putin

I don’t regret anything. I did everything absolutely correctly.