I’m opposed to any policy that would deny in our country any human being from access to public safety, public education, or public health, period.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it.

I do have a political agenda. It’s to have as few regulations as possible.

There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.

I think same sex couples should be able to get married.

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.

Nineteen sixty-eight was one exciting moment in a much larger movement. It spawned a whole range of movements. There wouldn’t have been an international global solidarity movement, for instance, without the events of 1968. It was enormous, in terms of human rights, ethnic rights, a concern for the environment, too.

I think that slavery is wrong, morally, socially and politically. I desire that it should be no further spread in these United States, and I should not object if it should gradually terminate in the whole Union.

Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery.

First, how do we give everyone a fair shot at opportunity and security in this new economy? Second, how do we make technology work for us, and not against us – especially when it comes to solving urgent challenges like climate change? Third, how do we keep America safe and lead the world without becoming its policeman?

If you’re in favour of any policy – reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever – if you’re at least minimally moral, it’s because you think it’s somehow good for people. And good for people means conforming to their fundamental nature.

I like policy. It’s why I decided to enter government. The other thing I like about government – you have good days, you have bad days, but you never have a boring day, and that’s important to me.

Rendition is just sending people abroad to be tortured.

There is a group of people that I think in good faith honestly believe that further curtailing our Second Amendment rights will enhance public safety. But there’s another group that just hates the Second Amendment.

We don’t seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?

Through the ages, many of His children have had access to the blessings of the gospel, but many more have not.

If I were a Negro, I’d be fighting, as Martin Luther King fought, for human recognition and justice. I’d rather go down with my flag flying. If you’re weak or crippled, or you can’t speak out or fight back in some way, then people don’t hesitate to treat you badly.

I believe we have to nip Ebola in the bud before it spreads through Africa and to other countries.

Our rights are not absolute. Our rights can be curtailed in the interest of public safety.

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.

It’s hard to improve public education – that’s clear.

Let us give publicity to H.I.V./AIDS and not hide it, because the only way to make it appear like a normal illness like TB, like cancer, is always to come out and say somebody has died because of H.I.V./AIDS, and people will stop regarding it as something extraordinary.

I’m prepared to say that law enforcement should be allowed to seize the guns of those who are suspected to be involved in domestic terrorism.

I think we must get rid of slavery, or we must get rid of freedom.

I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think and feel.

There is no such thing as part freedom.

Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself.

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what’s happening in Africa, and if we’re honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.

Judge Afiuni has suffered enough. She has been subject to acts of violence and humiliations to undermine her human dignity. I am convinced that she must be set free.

All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.

I was standing on a ladder outside the Homestead juvenile immigrant detention center outside Miami, looking over the fence, and I saw children lined up like prisoners. They had been separated from their families and put in this private detention facility. It was horrible.

Religion is compulsory in English schools, you know.

If I own a large part of Scotland, I can turn the people off the land practically into the sea or across the sea. I can take women in child-bearing and throw them into the snow and leave them there. That has been done. I can do it for no better reason than I think it is better to shoot deer on the land than allow people to live on it.

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

I’m not for gay marriage, but I’m not for discriminating against people.

If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America.

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

The immigration issue is, I recognize, one that generates a lot of passion, but it does not make sense for us to want to push talent out.

A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.

In some respects, South African apartheid was more vicious than Israeli practices, and in some respects the opposite is true.

The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing – that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of our world – is what I wish for all.

The majority of people who don’t have Internet, don’t have the Internet because they don’t know why they want to use the Internet.

Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.

Human rights are not only violated by terrorism, repression or assassination, but also by unfair economic structures that creates huge inequalities.

So what we’re talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live, period. And what we’re facing in Africa is an unprecedented threat to human dignity and equality.

A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.

What we all want is public safety. We don’t want rhetoric that’s framed through ideology.

Breast cancer alone kills some 458,000 people each year, according to the World Health Organization, mainly in low- and middle-income countries. It has got to be a priority to ensure that more women can access gene testing and lifesaving preventive treatment, whatever their means and background, wherever they live.

The economy’s always been the engine for our national security.

I have been to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, and I have witnessed the racially segregated roads and housing that reminded me so much of the conditions we experienced in South Africa under the racist system of Apartheid.

Some of my colleagues argue that by further curtailing our Second Amendment rights, they can enhance public safety. Fine, the burden of proof is on them.

No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained.

You have to develop ways so that you can take up for yourself, and then you take up for someone else. And so sooner or later, you have enough courage to really stand up for the human race and say, ‚I’m a representative.‘

The AIDS is a disease that is hard to talk about.

I think all Americans believe in human rights. And health is an often overlooked aspect of basic human rights. And it’s one that’s easily corrected. The reason I say that is that many of the diseases that we treat around the world, I knew when I was a child. My mother was a registered nurse. And they no longer exist in our country.

Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.

Public health service should be as fully organized and as universally incorporated into our governmental system as is public education. The returns are a thousand fold in economic benefits, and infinitely more in reduction of suffering and promotion of human happiness.