Celebrity Quotes

Create your future from your future not your past.

Your life works to the degree you keep your agreements.

You don't have to go looking for love when it's where you come from.

We were young, we were foolish, we were arrogant, but we were right.

President Johnson put destroyers in harm's way in the Tonkin Gulf not only once, but several times, with the, with a lot of his people hoping that it would lead to a confrontation and claiming that it had. And could have resulted in the lost of many lives in the course of it.

Only we, the public, can force our representatives to reverse their abdication of the war powers that the Constitution gives exclusively to the Congress.

Obama is making a choice now that will lead to the deaths of many thousands of civilians in Afghanistan by American hands. By ordinary standards of presidents, he is a decent man. But those standards aren't good enough. He's in a position either to kill or not to kill, and he's made the decision to

Nixon did have a secret plan, and I knew that it involved making threats of nuclear war to North Vietnam.

My feelings of revulsion and foreboding about nuclear weapons had not changed an iota since 1945, and they have never left me. Since I was 14, the overriding objective of my life has been to prevent the occurrence of nuclear war.

It was a good 15 or 20 years before anyone at Rand would be in the same room with me. They didn't want the question raised, 'What's your relationship with Daniel Ellsberg?' And not one of them wrote me a letter because they didn't want a letter of theirs to show up in my trash - which the FBI had be

I agree that there are things that should be kept secret.

There should be at least one leak like the Pentagon Papers every year.

The fact is that when it comes to judgment as to what should be secret and what should not be secret, Julian Assange's judgment has been pretty good so far.

Look, all administrations, all governments lie, all officials lie and nothing they say is to be believed. That's a pretty good rule.

If there's another 9/11 or a major war in the Middle-East involving a U.S. attack on Iran, I have no doubt that there will be, the day after or within days an equivalent of a Reichstag fire decree that will involve massive detentions in this country.

If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us.

There are two types of courage involved with what I did. When it comes to picking up a rifle, millions of people are capable of doing that, as we see in Iraq or Vietnam. But when it comes to risking their careers, or risking being invited to lunch by the establishment, it turns out that's remarkably

We want people to experience art and think about it. The art reflects our time, it is about our culture.

We may not like our times or many aspects of the time we live in but that is not the fault of art as such.

We are concerned with the relationship between art and life. Contemporary art is only intelligible in terms of its relationship to our life.

Unless you are a born connoisseur of art, you will not be able to judge by yourself why certain art is superior to other art.

The educator and the public need to have an opportunity to discuss why certain art is important.

Once we start collecting, the more you have, the more it gets valuable and that will stop us from responding to the present and taking on new ideas what the artists are doing now.

You don't run for public office unless you have a specific vision. You are driven by ideas and a vision.

Women have more to prove than men when it comes to politics.

Television has tremendous power over our lives.

Presidents do not go into war lightly. It's a tremendous responsibility in making decisions, and I know Bush must deeply believe this is the only course.

It's been a strange day - a day when I thought I was on top of the world, planning my life. I planned all of my courses for the rest of the semester at Smith, and talked to my advisor about honoring in History.

If it weren't the problem of politics for me, it would be another. And yet, sometimes it's so difficult. And I feel sorry for myself. And then hate myself for this feeling of self-pity.

I don't see a candidate on the scene right now, but it is going to have to be a candidate that people can look at as a leader and not as a man or a woman.