No party can command respect which sustains this year, what it opposed last.

In great contests, each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be, wrong.

For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.

The American president increasingly used his influence to create conflicts, intensify existing conflicts, and, above all, to keep conflicts from being resolved peacefully. For years this man looked for a dispute anywhere in the world, but preferably in Europe, that he could use to create political entanglements with American economic obligations to one of the contending sides, which would then steadily involve America in the conflict and thus divert attention from his own confused domestic economic policies.

I've never written a political song. Songs can't save the world. I've gone through all that.

Imagine' is a big hit almost everywhere - anti-religious, anti-nationalistic, anti-conventional, anti-capitalistic, but because it is sugar-coated, it is accepted. Now I understand what you have to do. Put your political message across with a little honey.