I'd like to be remembered as someone who was a champion of peace and human rights.

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.

What other people think is important to them. What you think has great importance to you.

Symphony starts when you walk together, feel the heart beats and understand the unspoken words.

I want to be as gracious and thankful as I can because it has been a long road.

The best sentence? The shortest.

In media, there's a distance and an unrealistic expectation of knowledge about a person that's created.

Play is the most natural method of self-healing that childhood affords.

If you want to stop illegal immigration, you have to make it so that - so that the people that hire the illegal immigrants will not be in a position to hire them.

As to the media, they are protected by the First Amendment, as they should be.

Really interesting things come because you don't know what the rules are, what you can and can't do.

I think I opened up an area with Astral Weeks that hit a lot of peoples' nerves. But you can't really say that they're my favorite songs.