This is the first national administration we've ever seen where the housewife couldn't afford to buy groceries and the farmer couldn't afford to grow them.

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.

...if you do not even understand what words say, how can you expect to pass judgement on what words conceal?

Our sense of history has grown dangerously thin, and our sense of proportion with it.

Pan took the joke good-naturedly, probably deciding it wasn't a good idea to argue with a fifteen-year-old who had just pulled two people up ten feet.

Don't try to make intelligent decisions when your brain is hyped

I try to grow like a tree, and hope that I can reach my full potential by the end of this short life. Change is good but growth is better.

While the health benefits are many, yoga offers much more than just a way to exercise the body.

You can't do an impersonation of somebody nobody knows.

If you open your heart, then the object of your love becomes so precious because you are so open. And that philosophy, that caring, spreads.

They say that parenting is like dancing. You take one step, your child takes another.

As a private person I think I am now totally different from Ruud van Nistelrooy the footballer.