The oil lobby, perhaps the most powerful lobby on earth, is almost matched by hospital owners and doctors.

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.

In times of war, the law falls s

Sometimes I think heaven must be one continuous unexhausted reading.

It is a great misfortune neither to have enough wit to talk well nor enough judgment to be silent.

But our great security lies, I think, in our growing strength.

I can love October in September. September doesn’t care.

For a long time, my shows were about people walking out or about getting my gigs canceled or having the presenter not wanting to pay me.

We were really responsive. It was very personalized for the die-hards that did watch, and I thought that would be a big draw, too.

You develop a team to achieve what one person cannot accomplish alone. All of us alone are weaker, by far, than if all of us are together.

International markets are much bigger than the U.S. In Sweden we have 9 million inhabitants, and if you're successful in Sweden, you're not successful - it's such a small market.

Bravery never goes out of fashion.