I believe that nothing is more important to our ability to effectively address our present than understanding the lessons learned from those who have come before us.

After a lifetime of working, raising families, and contributing to the success of this nation in countless other ways, senior citizens deserve to retire with dignity.

Diversity for the sake of diversity is not an accomplishment or a step forward. It's what you bring to the table.

And one of the most important values of Barack Obama is that he will always level with the American people.

This nation's elected leaders owe all Americans the duty of formulating an Iraqi policy based on sound analysis of the actual facts.

We, the French, are viscerally attached to our laicite, our sovereignty, our independence, our values. The world knows that when France is attacked, it is liberty that is dealt a blow.

Not as tyrants have we come, but as liberators.

With my music, I can express myself so much. A lot of the fans can sense that I'm relating to them something that's quite personal.

Because I'm anti-war, I've been called pro-Taliban.

A visionary may see, but a leader must decide.

All a skeptic is is someone who hasn't had an experience yet.

Understanding does not come through analysis;understanding comes only when the mind is very quite,unburdened,no longer seeking success and therefore being thwarted,afraid of faluire.

I love dressing up and doing the red carpet every once in a while, but I am very much a jeans kinda girl, so it's all a little embarrassing for me.

It is good to be God, yeah. It's nice to get the recognition that I've been working so hard for.

The doctrine of thrift for the poor is dumb and cruel, like advising them to try and lift themselves by their bootstraps.