Wer sich nicht an die Vergangenheit erinnern kann, ist dazu verurteilt, sie zu wiederholen.

Wir leben in einer Welt, in der die Grundregel anscheinend lautet, dass wir umso weniger zum BIP beitragen, je wichtiger unsere Tätigkeit für die Gesellschaft ist.

Das Regieren nach Zahlen ist die letzte Zuflucht eines Landes, das nicht mehr weiß, was es will und keinerlei Utopie mehr hat.

Je näher die Welt zusammenrückt, desto kleiner wird die Zahl der Gewinner.

Wir brauchen eine Umverteilung der Einkommen (Grundeinkommen), der Zeit (Arbeitszeitverkürzung), der Steuern (Besteuerung des Kapitals statt der Arbeit) und der Roboter.

Die reichsten 8% besitzen die Hälfte des globalen Einkommens.

Die reichsten 1% besitzen mehr als die Hälfte des gesamten Vermögens der Menschheit.

Die ärmste Milliarde hat 1% Anteil am globalen Konsum.

Der reichsten Milliarde hat 72% Anteil am globalen Konsum.

Wenn wir die Welt zu einem besseren Ort machen wollen, führt kein Weg daran vorbei, die Grenzen für die Migranten zu beseitigen.

Das Problem sind nicht die neuen Ideen. Das Problem ist, wie wir uns von den alten Ideen lösen können.

Intelligente Menschen nutzen ihren Verstand nicht, um die richtige Antwort zu finden. Sie nutzen ihn, um die Antwort zu finden, die ihnen gefällt.

Unser Ziel sollte nicht ein vollkommenes Utopia sein, sondern eine Welt, in der Phantasie und Hoffnung lebendig sind.

Nichts ist stärker, als eine Idee, deren Zeit gekommen ist.

The affairs of America I shall ever look upon as my first business whilst I am in Europe. Any confidence from the king and ministers, any popularity I may have among my own countrymen, any means in my power, shall be, to the best of my skill, and till the end of my life, exerted in behalf of an interest I have so much at heart.

One of my favorite authors, Garbrielle Zevin, she did a book called 'Elsewhere,' that is one of my favorites, and I think they're making that into a movie too. I really want to be in that one just because the story is so beautiful.

Americans want and deserve a broad array of health insurance choices so they can identify those that best fit their own individual or family needs. These choices expand when we allow free enterprise to foster innovation, not smother it with taxes and one-size fits all ideology.

At the end of the day, we came into the world naked, and that's the way we're going to go.

It's always a problem, getting the curtain in at the end of the first act; having enough of a resolve so that you can bring the curtain in and then opening the show a second time is a little bizarre as a tradition. I've always preferred to go straight through.

When you can impress your mom by saying you've been to someone's concert, you know you're pretty lame.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

I've always found a way to make my way, and now I've had the fortune of being hired by a great company - Chrysler Corporation - one of the original Big Three.

Nebraska was home to indigenous peoples for centuries. It became a state in 1867, and has produced an important literary figure, Willa Cather, as well as an investor said to be the world's second richest man, Warren Buffett.

I love Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath and Guns N' Roses and AC/DC.

Americans get it. They're ready for some opportunities to have greener communities, to have cleaner communities, and to have transportation options that perhaps they haven't had in the past.

I'm not very good in the rain. I don't wear a golf glove.

If you get enough people believing one thing, it's like reality bends itself to allow that to exist.

As long as you're in an environment where the worth of the project isn't based on the project but what its predecessors did, it's not truly inclusive.

Valentine's Day is like Armistice Day--you declare a truce.

On climate change, we have only a handful of years to make massive changes, according to the scientists. The politicians have to act, and only the people can make them, because Royal Dutch Shell's not going to do it.

I make a genuine distinction between loneliness and aloneness. I know what each is like. There are times I'm lonely. But there are also many times when I need to be alone, when I don't want the feeling of someone else in the house other than the cats.

Racing Stripes was so much fun to do. It's one of the funniest movies I've seen in a couple years.

The Australian public are very fair and they are always prepared to give a leader of a major political party a fair go.

Do not aim low, you will miss the mark. Aim high and you will be on a threshold of bliss.

We live in a culture where we're bombarded with so much noise and so much insecurity.

Spain is facing an economic situation of extreme difficulty, I repeat, of extreme difficulty, and anyone who doesn't understand that is fooling themselves.

It was morning; through the high window I saw the pure, bright blue of the sky as it hovered cheerfully over the long roofs of the neighboring houses. It too seemed full of joy, as if it had special plans, and had put on its finest clothes for the occasion.

Not to he who is offensive to us are we most unfair but to he who does not concern us at all.