I do not trust self serving misinformation coming from corporations and their media trolls. I do not trust politicians who are taking millions from those corporations either. I trust people. So I make my music for people not for candidates.

What luck, for governments, that the people are stupid!

Best wishes for your personal well-being as well as for the prosperous future of the peoples of the friendly Soviet Union.

For I must not measure the speech of a statesman to his people... but by the effect it exerts on the people.

How can I accept the Order of the Garter, when the people of England have just given me the Order of the Boot?

The choice was clearly open: crush them with vain and unstinted force, or try to give them what they want. These were the only alternatives, and though each had ardent advocates, most people were unprepared for either. Here indeed was the Irish spectre - horrid and inexorcisable.