Our Income Tax System is a disgrace to the human race.

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.

...disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business....

I hate how long it takes to feel radical, militantly maternal self-acceptance.

Engineering is not only study of 45 subjects but it is moral studies of intellectual life.

I jumped on Sinbad's bottle. Nothing happened. I didn't do it again. Sometimes when nothing happened it was really getting ready to happen

When we're talking about technology that involves weapons of mass destruction, nuclear, chemical or biological weapons, there has to be an element of preemption.

All I wanted was for the public to be able to have a say in how they are governed. That is a milestone we left a long time ago.

When I'm recording something (especially because I produce my own music) I might consider how hard it would be to replicate a song on stage.

Madness is the exception in individuals but the rule in groups.

Give me a prejudice and I will move the world.

I wish I was as cocksure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything.