I've always rebelled a little when people say, 'My Jewish values lead me to really care about the poor.' I know some Christians who care about the poor, too.

Yuppies don't have loyalty. They have useful relationships and meaningful encounters.

Barack Obama is not going to beat Hillary Clinton in a single Democratic primary. I’ll predict that right now.

White women are a problem, that's, you know - we all live with that.

If we free the people of Iraq, we will be respected in the Arab world... and I think we will be respected around the world.

[the war in Iraq] "could have terrifically good effects troughout the Middle East

Whenever I hear anything described as a heartless assault on our children, I tend to think it’s a good idea.

Having defeated and then occupied Iraq, democratizing the country should not be too tall an order for the world's sole superpower.

American power should be used not just in the defense of American interests but for the promotion of American principles.

If the American people really come to a settled belief that Bush lied us into war, his presidency will be over.

Bush is no conservative.

And he took her in his arms and kissed her under the sunlit sky, and he cared not that they stood high upon the walls in the sight of many.

Government was rarely more than a choice between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

We may draw good outof evil we must not do evil that good may come.

Learn as much as you can while you are young, since life becomes too busy later.

I do not drink more than a sponge.

if there's a spirit world why don't the ghosts of dead artists get together and inhibit bad playwrights from tormenting first-nighters?

... one can judge a civilization by the way its treats its women.

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Agape, the love of each one of us for the other, from the closest to the furthest, is in fact the only way that Jesus has given us to find the way of salvation and of the Beatitudes.

The economy is very different in the world that we're living in. And I think Americans are looking for executive leadership that actually has some experience of creating jobs.