"It was my mistake in the first days of the electoral campaign. I understand the mistake. I don't accept that people who say, "Oh, politicians have to refuse to admit the mistakes." No. I am an, I am a man. I can make some mistakes."

“No, no, no, not God bless America — God damn America!”

Source : "Why Rev. Wright Was Wrong for Oprah". "On the Record" with Greta Van Susteren, www.foxnews.com. May 5, 2008.

“I hope I will be religious again but as for regaining my character I despare.”

Source : 'Journal' p. 80

“When feeling is divested of the feeler and the felt, it shines as love; when seeing is divested of the seer and the seen, it shines as beauty.”

“We have done almost everything in pairs since Noah, except govern. And the world has suffered for it.”

“The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible.  What the second duty is no one has as yet discovered.”

“Now we see how the astronomical evidence supports the biblical view of the origin of the world. The details differ, but the essential elements in the astronomical and biblical accounts of Genesis are the same: the chain of events leading to man commenced suddenly and sharply at a definite moment in time, in a flash of light and energy.”

Source : "Have Astronomers" by Robert Jastrow, www.nytimes.com. June 25, 1978.

“Old men, imagining themselves under obligation to young paramours, seldom keep any thing from their knowledge.”

“In every governmental speech I give before state parliament, I say: Bavaria will remain Bavaria.”

Source : "'We Want a Solution to the Immigration Problem'". Interview with Markus Feldenkirchen and Ralf Neukirch, www.spiegel.de. September 16, 2016.