In the United States, you might say every county has got its own separate system. There's not even one kind of ballot that you use all over the United States. We require that in a foreign country.

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.

Lord, my hands were made for blessing, but not my feet!

Sing, boy! sing! The ages are waiting for you. Sing! sing! All the world will hear you. God knows what will come of it.

Every day is Christmas. Everyday Christ embrace us with His love, peace and joy.

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.

We're out playing ball in the gym, I put boogers on the basketball and pass it to him.

My only objective is to paint a Christ so moving that those who see him will be converted.

If you really want to change a culture... empower women.

I think it's really the job of the composer, the artist, the painter, the writer to present people with options. I'm just really reflecting the thoughts and actions around me.

In order to do great things, you must be unafraid to recreate yourself. You can't do that holding on to a glory from yesterday.