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.

It’s good to remember that in crises, natural crises, human beings forget for awhile their ignorances, their biases, their prejudices. For a little while, neighbors help neighbors and strangers help strangers.

I live on the West Coast of the United States, and yet the air that I breathe is sometimes the same air that was being breathed in China the day before.

All these walls that keep us from loving each other as one family or one race – racism, religion, where we grew up, whatever, class, socioeconomic – what makes us be so selfish and prideful, what keeps us from wanting to help the next man, what makes us be so focused on a personal legacy as opposed to the entire legacy of a race.

Ladies and gentlemen, god bless America – land of the free, home of the brave.

How can we help President Obama?

There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing.

We will always be a family. Always.

The President is going to benefit from me reporting directly to him when I arrive.

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.

Do I think faith will be an important part of being a good president? Yes, I do.

Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.

But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret.

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

I’ve actually made a prediction that within 30 years a majority of new cars made in the United States will be electric. And I don’t mean hybrid, I mean fully electric.

You are twice as likely to be struck by lightning as you around to be affected by a terrorist event in the United States.

I’m going to be so much better a president for having been at the CIA that you’re not going to believe it.

I’ve used the prestige and influence of having been a president of the United States as effectively as possible. And secondly, I’ve still been able to carry out my commitments to peace and human rights and environmental quality and freedom and democracy and so forth.

When I took over as president, I studied the Constitution, and the more I studied it, the more I realised that it does not prevent the president of India from giving the nation a vision. So when I went and presented this vision in Parliament and in legislative assemblies; everyone welcomed it, irrespective of party affiliations.

All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.

Nixon was no more a saint than he was a great president.

When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?

People seem to know about May Day everywhere except where it began, here in the United States of America. That’s because those in power have done everything they can to erase its real meaning.

When a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish.

One of the finest statesmen of the present time is also a first-class scout, and that is Mr. Roosevelt, the late President of the United States of America.

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.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

I think America has always been polarized.

I’m the president of the United States. I’m not the emperor of the United States.

In fact, the best thing we could do on taxes for all Americans is to simplify the individual tax code. This will be a tough job, but members of both parties have expressed an interest in doing this, and I am prepared to join them.

If segregationists had their way, I would not be a member of the United States Senate today, I would not be a top contender to be president of the United States.

With those attacks, the terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States. And war is what they got.

One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide.

Undoubtedly, the U.S. harbors leading international terrorists, people described by the F.B.I. and the Justice Department as leading terrorists, like Orlando Bosch, now Posada Carriles, not to speak of those who actually implement state terrorism.

Information helps you to see that you’re not alone. That there’s somebody in Mississippi and somebody in Tokyo who all have wept, who’ve all longed and lost, who’ve all been happy. So the library helps you to see, not only that you are not alone, but that you’re not really any different from everyone else.

As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.

We walk together, we move together, we think together, we resolve together, and together we take this country forward.

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness, not by each other’s misery.

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

We need to try to unite audiences, unite countries, join musical tastes, unite people.

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.

America isn’t Congress. America isn’t Washington. America is the striving immigrant who starts a business, or the mom who works two low-wage jobs to give her kid a better life. America is the union leader and the CEO who put aside their differences to make the economy stronger.

I can hear you, the rest of the world can hear you and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.

Since I’m the president and Democrats have controlled the House and the Senate, it’s understandable that people are saying, you know, ‚What have you done?‘

What I believe unites the people of this nation, regardless of race or region or party, young or old, rich or poor, is the simple, profound belief in opportunity for all – the notion that if you work hard and take responsibility, you can get ahead.

I don’t keep people around me that aren’t family. You don’t get to stay. Unless you’re eating at the table with us, you’re not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.

We’re so immaturely cynical as a culture. We’re not wise enough to look at an institution like marriage and to really things about what it means and what it signifies. It signifies a place where people can tie the ropes of their lives together so that they’re stronger. It signifies a place where people can tell the truth to one another.

In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.

Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar.

In 1961, the United States began chemical warfare in Vietnam, South Vietnam, chemical warfare to destroy crops and livestock. That went on for seven years. The level of poison – they used the most extreme carcinogen known: dioxin. And this went on for years.

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.

Over the last 15 months, we’ve traveled to every corner of the United States. I’ve now been in 57 states? I think one left to go.

I want a president with a record of public service: someone whose life’s work shows our children that we don’t chase form and fortune for ourselves; we fight to give everyone a chance to succeed.

The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.

We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.

This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us.

In my country we go to prison first and then become President.

All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.

The American doctor, in my opinion, possesses a combination of conservatism and that other quality which has put the United States in the forefront in almost every department of science – that is, an eagerness to know what it is really all about in order that he may not be the one left behind if there is something to it.

When we have peace, then we have a chance to save the planet. But if we are not united in peace, if we do not practice mindful consumption, we cannot save our planet.