Anybody can decide a question if only a single principle is in controversy.

The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind.

Appeal must be to an informed, civically militant electorate.

The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.

The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.

Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep.

We have enjoyed so much freedom for so long that we are perhaps in danger of forgetting how much blood it cost to establish the Bill of Rights.

It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.

Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.

Freedom of speech and of the press are essential to the enlightenment of a free people and in restraining those who wield power.

There can be no security where there is fear.

If you can't see the assets in you, it will be hard for you to export it to the world. Recognise who you are and the world will recognise you.

We all bullet point our triumphs, but I am who I am because of everything you don't see on my CV. The stuff that doesn't work out teaches you how to trust your instincts and adapt.

Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.

The sooner the US puts a cap on our dangerous carbon pollution, the sooner we can create a new generation of clean energy jobs here in America.

I own motorized bar stools.

I think I can be relatively attractive when I dress up, but I'm not Julia Roberts or Catherine Zeta Jones.

The love that saves us is not a love that might come to us in the future, but rather the love we can give to whomever is around us right now.

I hate the idea of success robbing you of your private life.

Life shoould be touched, not strangled. You've got to relax, let it happen at times, and at other move forward with it.

To divide along the lines of section or caste or creed is un-American.