[on the Republican party] A party with a narrow vision, a party that is afraid of the future.

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.

Greatness emanates through endurance and triumph over the difficulties in life.

Every end of the day is a great movie and the Sun above is surely the leading actor in this film!

... how could Britain operate in India for 300 years and take so little back from it in terms of understanding?

If you believe that some opinions are in fact better than others, then you, too, are an elitist of sorts.

He (Marilyn Manson) has a woman's name and wears makeup. How original.

Goldfish have no memory, I guess their lives are much like mine. And the little plastic castle is a surprise everytime.

[Heraclitus speaks as if] in entrancement ... but [also] truthfully.

There are already current laws on the books and there are - and jurisdictions. The IRS can come in and do any kind of investigation of a person.

You can gauge a country's wealth, its real wealth, by its tree cover.

It's so easy to just rip someone's work apart.