“If you would know the political and moral condition of a people, ask as to the position of its women.”

Whether slaves or free, they reign, because their empire is that of the affections.

All our first movements are good, generous, heroical; reflection weakens and kills them.

In exalting the faculties of the soul, we annihilate, in a great degree, the delusion of the senses.

Whatever may be the laws and customs of a country, women always give the tone to morals.

It requires two indiscreet persons to institute a quarrel; one individual cannot quarrel alone.

It is very clear that one way to challenge insults is to submit to them.

When these political action committees give money, they expect something in return other than good government.

Part of the problem with some elements of the European debate is that they hanker for the days when we were a great power. Those days are gone, and they went a long time ago.

The way to stop political correctness is to not do it. If someone says, You offended me then you say I don’t care! If they’re offended by the truth, that’s their issue!

Great obstacles make great leaders.

We have to remember that the experience of gangsta rap as such in its foundation is an anti-systemic experience primarily.

I’ve tried to avoid that all my life. When I wrote about soldiers in Vietnam, I wasn’t trying to make a political statement. I was trying to write about how screwed things were for soldiers, and how they still are.

I’m an actor who plays an intriguing character, not a political pundit.

Here is one of the first rules of politics: it’s not enough that I do well; I must also destroy my enemy.