“Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.”
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Regretful Quotes — page 117 of 169
“Our civilisation cannot afford to let the censor-moron loose. The censor-moron does not really hate anything but the living and growing human consciousness.”
“You can have your cake and eat it. But my God, it will go rotten inside you.”
“I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like a black mistake.”
“Men live in glad obedience to the masters they believe in, or they live in a frictional opposition to the master they wish to undermine.”
“Unlike my opponent, I will not let oil companies write this country's energy plan, or endanger our coastlines, or collect another $4 billion in corporate welfare from our taxpayers.”
“[About his marijuana use] I did. It's not something that I'm proud of. It was a mistake as a young man, but you know? I mean not going to -- I never understood that line. The point was to inhale. That was the point.”
“I will not stand by while the special interests use the same old tactics to keep things exactly the way they are ... Not this time. Not now.”
“So we don't need more top-down economics. We've tried that theory. We've seen what happens. We can't afford to go back to it.”
“Some people only speak of freedom of speech while they're out of power. Once they're in power, they're ruthless in suppressing the rights of others.”
“We cannot have a society in which some dictator some place can start imposing censorship here in the United States. If somebody is able to intimidate folks out of releasing a satirical movie, imagine what's going to happen when they see a documentary they don't like or news reports they don't like."”
“I never regret anything... I just lie about it or change the story.”
“You don't need to see my birth certificate, or my college records, or my legal writings, or... anything.”
“It's time to end the hypocrisy of those who accumulate wealth through the global economy, and then siphon funds to those who teach children to tear it down.”
“The Tea Party I have huge disagreements with, obviously. But I give them credit for having activated themselves. And they made a difference in terms of moving the Republican Party, in terms of moving the country in a particular direction. It's a direction I disagreed with. But it showed that, in fact, you get involved, if your voice is heard it has an impact.”
“I had said from the start that I thought Iraq was a mistake, that we should have stayed focused on Afghanistan. I think it was the right decision because the Taliban at that point had gotten a lot of momentum before I'd gotten into office, partly because we hadn't been paying attention as much as we needed to to Afghanistan.”
“There are always things that I think I wish I could have done better.”
“If you've got a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.”
“In spite of what anyone says it’s women who make the rules.”
“Steal what works, fix what's broke, fake the rest.”