Governance should be designed as an equalizer. Democrats are more inclined towards working families and those who are struggling for a better life.

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.

The world needs the kind of education by means of which character is formed, strength of the mind is increased and the human intellect is expanded beyond its own limits.

Grief makes gravity heavier and air molecules denser, so breathing is accomplished in a shallow, half-hearted way.

The frontiers are not east or west north or south but wherever a man fronts a fact.

The events I sought were never as great as I needed them to be.

Eventually you will go into samadhi. Samadhi is a very advanced meditation. You dissolve into the clear light of eternity again and again.

Being a soldier, fighting for this country, is neither Republican nor Democrat.

I believe that behind every closed door there is an open space.

The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.

People will remember a good comedy song a lot longer than they would some of the so-called straight love songs.

We never get to the bottom of ourselves on our own. We discover who we are face to face and side by side with others in work, love and learning.