The first thing I had to start with was, you know, we don't have a war. We don't have a depression, we don't have a Cold War.

There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who have seen the Taj Mahal and love it and those who have not seen the Taj and love it.

We cannot build our own future without helping others to build theirs.

I did not have sexual relations with that woman

NAFTA means jobs. American jobs, and good paying American jobs. If I didn't believe that, I wouldn't support this agreement.

It is dangerously destabilizing to have half the world on the cutting edge of technology while the other half struggles on the bare edge of survival.

Globalisation is not something that we can hold off or turn off. It is the economic equivalent of a force of nature, like wind or water.

It depends upon what the meaning of the word 'is' is.

I admire that about the Republicans: The evidence does not faze them. They are not bothered at all by the facts.

Considering the current sad state of our computer programs, software development is clearly still a black art, and cannot yet be called an engineering discipline.

AIDS is no longer a death sentence for those who can get the medicines. Now it's up to the politicians to create the "comprehensive strategies" to better treat the disease.

Oh I know it's cliché but yeah they say that great men make it in-To places few others who even do take the risk've ever been

Deliberately plan to be exciting and to be excited.

The strongest bank in the United States will last only so long as the people will have sufficient confidence in it to keep their money there.

Faith obliterates time, annihilates distance, and brings future things at once into its possession.

Part of the glamour of being a poet was always this long reach into the future. You knew you were managing time.

I definitely don't want to achieve some kind of rock star status.

If you are swept off your feet, it's time to get on your knees.

I do consider my engaged poetry as a personal mission, a duty toward a society which evolves into a system of control of consciences: one even becomes a suspect for not thinking correctly!

My papa said son don't let the man getcha and do what he done to me.

This common prayer project has taken years of energy, but we see it not as a way to leave our individual churches, but as a movement we hope to see permeate the larger Church.