America has no functioning democracy at this moment.

The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens.

What are the things that you can't see that are important? I would say justice, truth, humility, service, compassion, love...They're the guiding lights of a life.

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.

We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.

All I want is the same thing you want. To have a nation with a government that is as good and honest and decent and competent and compassionate and as filled with love as are the American people.

We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.

The test of a government is not how popular it is with the powerful and privileged few but how honestly and fairly it deals with the many who must depend on it.

If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.

It is difficult for the common good to prevail against the intense concentration of those who have a special interest, especially if the decisions are made behind locked doors.

One of the most serious problems that our country has inherited an unwillingness to talk to anyone who disagrees with us or who won't accept, before a discussion, all the premises that we demand.

Loving a man shouldn't have to be this rough

Most people with new ideas are ridiculed … until they succeed!

Princeton is a sublime undergraduate university. It has a good architecture school.

I don’t think success is a place or a definition, I think it’s a direction.

In the 'bullshit department' a businessman can't hold a candle to a clergyman.

I only appear to be dead.

Nothing goes far which has not the wings of love to make it buoyant, so that it can fly.

I realized that improvisers should probably always have time off. But musicians are always gigging and never have a chance to stop for a minute - unless something drastic occurs.

We are deceived by promises and time disappoints us.

He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.