The history of African-American repression in this country rose from government-sanctioned racism. Jim Crow laws were a product of bigoted state and local governments.

Foreign aid goes from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.

I've heard of many tragic cases of walking, talking normal children who wound up with profound mental disorders after vaccines.

No Republican questions or disputes civil rights. I have never wavered in my support for civil rights or the civil rights act.

We will not cut one penny from the safety net until we've cut every penny from corporate welfare.

You know, you look at term limits, you poll term limits, 70, 80 percent of Republicans or Democrats are for it.

My great grandfather, like many, came to this country in search of the American Dream.

I don't want to live in a nanny state where people are telling me where I can go and what I can do.

If our freedom is taken, the American dream will wither and die.

I am running for president to return our country to the principles of liberty and limited government.

For liberty to expand, government must shrink. For the economy to grow, government must get out of the way.

The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.

This is what a castle sounded like when it died, and he knew he would never forget it.

The more we train a man to labor, deliberate, dictate and demand over the inconsequential, the less capable his mind becomes of holding that of consequence.

But words are water in Amsterdam, they flood your ears and set the rot, and the church's east corner is crowded.

I am lost in the world of books. So many books to read.

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

My mother and stepfather were married 43 years, so I have watched a long marriage. I feel like I had a very good role model for that. And, you know, it's just a number.

If I held all the thoughts of the world in my hand, I would be careful not to open it.

The audience is like my instrument. It's not just me up there, it's collaborative.

From which stars have we fallen to meet each other here?