I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go swimming.

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.

A smart woman knows when to listen to her man." Her man? "He is most definitely not my man. He's not my type." "Type? If he was any more your type, he'd have you sitting in his lap.

Life will succeed life, as we know it.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

The only consistent people are the dead

Love is the desire to give, not to receive, something. Love is the art of producing something with the other's talents.

I am interested in doing something that cannot be explained.

When the English have scored a goal, they think nothing more remains to be done.

If all the fools in this world should die, lordly God how lonely I should be.

It's not the bullet that kills you, it's the hole.

No revolution is worth anything unless it can defend itself.