The great thing about the United States and the historically magnetic effect it has had on a lot of people like me is its generosity, to put it simply.

The U.S. immigration laws are bad – really, really bad. I’d say treatment of immigrants is one of the greatest injustices done in our government’s name.

I’m substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the White House and Congress are at odds over what the future direction should be. They’re sort of playing a game and NASA is the shuttlecock that they’re hitting back and forth.

God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.

The events of October 1962 are widely hailed as Kennedy’s finest hour.

I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making.

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.

Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the population into the richest 20% than remain in the poorest bracket within the decade? You don’t need to imagine it. It’s called the United States of America.

During the 60’s, I was, in fact, very concerned about the civil rights movement.

Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here.

Money doesn’t mean anything to me. I’ve made a lot of money, but I want to enjoy life and not stress myself building my bank account. I give lots away and live simply, mostly out of a suitcase in hotels. We all know that good health is much more important.

I’m reasonably optimistic about the future, especially the future of the United States – for the century, at least.

I’m German in my mind, but from a Germany that doesn’t exist any more.

In the United States, we can do almost anything we want. It’s not like Egypt, where you’re going to get murdered by the security forces.

Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.

Generous people can become more generous as they become richer, giving away vast fortunes to worthwhile causes as Bill Gates and Warren Buffett are doing.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Is the Iranian record of intervention and terror worse than that of the U.S.?

The United States and our allies are determined: we refuse to live in the shadow of this ultimate danger.

I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner.

I don’t know that there is much the United States can do except work with the international community.

To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one’s own in the midst of abundance.

Stay humble and be concerned for the less fortunate.

Right after 9-11, as far as I know, one newspaper in the United States had the integrity to investigate opinion in the Muslim world: the ‚Wall Street Journal.‘

Ever since Israel has been a nation the United States has provided the leadership. Every president down to the ages has done this in a fairly balanced way, including George Bush senior, Gerald Ford, and others including myself and Bill Clinton.

Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries – for heavy ones they cannot.

Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.

It is hard sometimes to always be at the centre of attention, but when you talk about me you also have to talk about the climate.

I can die a happy man never having been president of the United States of America. But it doesn’t mean I won’t run.

I think when the president of the United States calls for military action, he should do it for a united people, especially when the methods have been so cruel, so explicitly directed at Americans.

Britain kept its position as the dominant world power well into the 20th century despite steady decline. By the end of World War II, dominance had shifted decisively into the hands of the upstart across the sea, the United States, by far the most powerful and wealthy society in world history.

You give before you get.

I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: ‚What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.‘

The United States is supplying the most modern and sophisticated weaponry to Israel to the tune of billions of dollars every year.

I am often asked if, when I was secretary, I had problems with foreign men. That is not who I had problems with, because I arrived in a very large plane that said United States of America. I had more problems with the men in our own government.

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

The White House is the finest prison in the world.

The United States is afraid of China; it is not a military threat to anyone and is the least aggressive of all the major military powers.

One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

We always live in an uncertain world. What is certain is that the United States will go forward over time.

Illinois surpasses every other spot of equal extent upon the face of the globe in fertility of soil and in the proportionable amount of the same which is sufficiently level for actual cultivation.

I think America has always been polarized.

We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.

Nowhere is it written that there must be conflict between the United States and China.

If the United States loses the economic weapons of control, it is very much weakened.

A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.

The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.

Charity bestowed upon those who are worthy of it is like good seed sown on a good soil that yields an abundance of fruits. But alms given to those who are yet under the tyrannical yoke of the passions are like seed deposited in a bad soil. The passions of the receiver of the alms choke, as it were, the growth of merits.

China is a great manufacturing center, but it’s actually mostly an assembly plant. So it assembles parts and components, high technology that comes from the surrounding industrial – more advanced industrial centers – Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore, the United States, Europe – and it basically assembles them.

He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.

The fact is: It’s true what they say about the United States. It is a land of opportunity. It is too various to get bored with it.

The United States has made serious mistakes in the conduct of its foreign affairs, which have had unfortunate repercussions long after the decisions were taken.

I kept a diary right after I was born. Day 1: Tired from the move. Day 2: Everyone thinks I’m an idiot.

Hate crime is not new in the United States.

While the crash only took place six months ago, I am convinced we have now passed the worst, and with continued unity of effort, we shall rapidly recover. There is one certainty of the future of a people of the resources, intelligence and character of the people of the United States – that is, prosperity.

In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.

If you think the United States has stood still, who built the largest shopping center in the world?

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

I have always seen the United States as a force of good. And I have learned that there is the idealistic part about what we can do at the U.N. and there is a doable part. And I have learned what is more doable.