Obama gets his identity and his ideology from his father.

The paradox of liberal tolerance is that it extends to Marxists, transsexuals, and Islamic radicals, but not to conservatives or Christians.

...Slavery appears such a relatively mild business that one begins to wonder why Frederick Douglass and so many others ever tried to escape.

I really want to move to a country where the poor people are fat.

Blacks' problems lie not in the heads of white people but rather in the wasted and incompletely fulfilled lives of too many black people.

Some critics accuse capitalism of being a selfish system, but the selfishness is not in capitalism - it is in human nature.

With capitalism and prosperity came something new: the idea of progress. This is the notion that things are getting better and will continue to get better in the future.

Somehow freedom for religious expression has become freedom from religious expression.

Whenever the government is involved, there is an element of coercion.

Christianity is the very root and foundation of Western civilization.

War on terror' is a misnomer. It would be like calling America's involvement in World War II a 'war on kamikazism.' Terrorism, like kamikazism, is a tactic.

To avoid the pain of loss, give up attachment.

We can say that Muad'Dib learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn.

Repent when you fail, and immediately seek God’s forgiveness and restoration. Sin breaks our fellowship with God.

I do not want to criticize while my soldiers are still bleeding and dying in Iraq.

I'm the luckiest guy in the world to be my parents' son.

You ought to dialogue first before you start throwing spears. And I think the U.N. provides an opportunity for dialogue.

To beautify life is to give it an object.

My best girl is dead.

I didn't like to be restricted, because when you're in a choir, you have a part to sing and you sing it. I always liked singing on my own.

I love black because it affirms, designs and styles. A woman in a black dress is a pencil stroke.