God always answers prayer, sometimes with a yes, sometimes with a no and sometimes with a 'You've got to be kidding!'

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.

America has no functioning democracy at this moment.

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.

Sure I'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself someday.

Everyone has this perception that the bloggers, they say horrible things about you and they hide behind their computers where you can't see them.

You need good coaches with a good gym that teach you the essentials, like boxing, kickboxing, wrestling, and pretty much all the stuff that you need to be successful in MMA.

What else do we all want, each one of us, except to love and be loved, in our families, in our work, in all our relationships?

The poor are the only ones who suffer. And they're used to it.

It is astonishing what foolish things one can temporarily believe if one thinks too long alone, particularly in economics.

I think music can definitely be art; I also think music can be crap and not be art.

Fastidious taste makes enjoyment a struggle.

I am the poet of the poor, because I was poor when I loved; since I could not give gifts, I gave words.

A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.