Edward Teller Quotes

I've for some reason or other... never met Donald Trump.

Normally the great men that we admire from a distance lose their magic when one knows them well. With Hitler the opposite is true.

Donald Rumsfeld. Love him or hate him, you've gotta admit: a lot of people hate him.

I think Michael Moore is a hero. I love him.

I've seen [Trump] appear in a film or a TV show cameo or the tabloids, and he's a grotesquely distasteful human being and always has been, always made me want to take a shower.

Michael Flynn is a very controversial figure for a variety of reasons.

Peter Mandelson is the only man I know who can skulk in broad daylight.

In September 1942 the U.S. government purchased 58,575 acres of wilderness in eastern Tennessee. Soon there was a town, Oak Ridge, and amazing scientific facilities. Thirty-four months after the purchase, an atomic blast lit the New Mexico desert. After 43 months in Iraq, U.S. forces still struggle to cope with improvised explosive devices.

Belafonte sent his people to pick me up and I went back and shook his hand, then went back to my little flat. I was very happy to have met a president of the United States - little me!

Nobody thought Mel Gibson could play a Scot, but look at him now! Alcoholic and a racist!

He's a man [George W. Bush] who is lucky to be governor of Texas. He is a man who is unusually incurious, abnormally unintelligent, amazingly inarticulate, fantastically uncultured, extraordinarily uneducated, and apparently quite proud of all these things.

I was in a Paris for four or five days and I couldn't believe the reaction I got there. It was just bizarre; people recognizing me left and right.

Oliver Stone. Is that not enough?

I got all the Sarah Palin I need for one lifetime.

After the war, and until the day of his death, his position on almost every public question was either mischievous or ridiculous, and usually both.

A celebrity now is someone who's on the telly.

The most challenging thing is how to portray someone that is so well known that people still recall him in a very precise way.

Now you have to decide whether or not you want to be part of the bigotry that is Donald Trump. You have to decide whether you want to be part of the sexism and misogyny that is Donald Trump.

For me, the biggest idiot will always be John Terry.

Writing about someone well known removes that obligation of defending it as a subject, but it also means that some of the surprise and freshness is already gone. It's so different - in some ways much harder for me.

Rush Limbaugh, whether you hate him or not, he's a great entertainer; he's a great broadcaster.

Nobody respects women more than Donald Trump.

I think maybe Rush Limbaugh was the 20th hijacker. But he was just so strung out on Oxycontin he missed his flight. Rush Limbaugh, 'I hope the country fails' - I hope his kidneys fail, how about that? ... He needs a waterboarding, that's what he needs.

Being a celebrity at a very high level is a good thing.

Hillary Clinton rubs people the wrong way, for valid reasons.