I'm 86, and too old to be President.

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.

[W]e’ve learned that grief can sometimes get loud, and when it does, we try not to speak over it.

My mother died of lung cancer last year. I felt helpless. As an economist, I thought, What can I do?

Historically, in my generation, all of my heroes and heroines have had issues and problems. We all do.

Do not try to be special. If you are simply ordinary, more ordinary than others, you will become extraordinary.

Fanny! You are killing me!" "No man dies of love but on the stage, Mr. Crawford.

My changeup looks like a fastball, but one goes straight and the other goes away from the righthanded hitter. Sometimes it cuts by itself, and I don't know where it's going.

How to obtain freedom has been, and is, mankind's most important quest.

I am good to people who are good. I am also good to people who are not good. Because Virtue is goodness.

Your thought is the parent that gives birth to all things.

So you know cats are interesting. They are kind of like girls. If they come and talk to you it's great. But if you try to talk to them it doesn't always go so well.