It is not unpatriotic to acknowledge America’s faults. No country is perfect… We can’t reach the top of the mountain if we don’t fix the injustice and confront our lies.

The people who lead us are of us. We put them in office and we can take them out. America proves that the people can govern themselves.

I raised my right hand and placed my left on the Quran, which was being held by my wife and mom. Suddenly, I was blinded by a cascade of camera flashes...

A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.

I only wish to be the fountain of love from which you drink, every drop promising eternal passion.

Institutional practices, it seems, perpetuate themselves mostly by their invisibility.

I think, as a professional courtesy, when the president asks you to dinner, you go.

Years ago when a man began to notice that if he stood up on the subway he was immediately replaced by two people, he figured he was getting too fat.

My experience at the 1992 Winter Olympics was my fulfillment of dreaming the Impossible Dream.

Libertarians love their children at least as much as the Democrats and the Republicans, probably more.

The things one feels absolutely certain about are never true. That is the fatality of faith, and the lesson of romance.

knowledge of our duties is the most useful part of philosophy.