If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you.

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.

because daytime leaves vampires less than, well, conscious, I told him, “Take your muffins to Boston and shut it, Terrance.” And then I hung up on him.

Most of them had not understood Blackberry's discovery of the raft and at once forgot it.

My architecture is the architecture of survival.

If your world doesn't allow you to dream, move to one where you can.

Real things don't frighten me just the ones in my mind do.

Britain should be the world's number one center for genetic and stem cell research, building on our world leading regulatory regime in the area.

Last words are for those fools who believe they have not yet said enough.

To me what really matters is that it shouldn't matter to you what day of the week it is.

God does not care If I am bad or good- He wants my love, Not my sainthood.

In Europe, being an artist is a form of behavior. In America, it's an excuse for a form of behavior.