This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.

Anti-Semitism is real in this country.

For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.

The proper study of mankind is woman.

Our veterans who fall on hard times and find themselves without a home deserve more than just handwringing or kind words. They deserve real help that gets them back on their feet.

The ‚peace movement‘ exists only in the fantasies of the paranoid.

Racism and sexism, misogyny and homophobia, they’re so visible. They’re out in the open. When they’re visible, it’s a lot easier to deal with them.

When I was president, I announced and I still maintain that I can live with Roe v. Wade. I did everything I possibly could as president under that ruling, which I don’t think ought to be changed, to minimize the need for abortions. I think every abortion is a result of a horrible series of errors on the part of people involved.

Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.

Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and the war on terrorism have reduced the pace of military transformation and have revealed our lack of preparation for defensive and stability operations. This Administration has overextended our military.

You can’t get a contemporary story about what is going on inside government, and how society sees itself, on American TV.

So while an incredible amount of progress has been made, on this fifth anniversary, I wanted to come here and tell the people of this city directly: My administration is going to stand with you – and fight alongside you – until the job is done. Until New Orleans is all the way back, all the way.

I cannot possibly believe that I have it made while so many black brothers and sisters are hungry, inadequately housed, insufficiently clothed, denied their dignity as they live in slums or barely exist on welfare.

I am no supporter of factory labor for children, but I have never joined with those who clamored against proper work of children on farms outside their school hours.

The poor don’t know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.

The country has come a long way in race relations, but the pendulum swings so far back. Everyone wants to be so sensitive.

The capitalist system is about taking from the Earth and from the other great commodity, labour. What’s happening with this system is that the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer, and the only way out of it is supposed to be growth. But growth is debt. It’s going to make the situation worse.

No one is pro-abortion.

In a summer marked by instability in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, I know the world also took notice of the small American city of Ferguson, Missouri – where a young man was killed, and a community was divided. So yes, we have our own racial and ethnic tensions.

Every President I think I’ve ever known, except Truman, has thought they didn’t quite get done what they wanted done. And toward the end of their Administrations, they were disappointed and wished they had done some things differently.

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.

Unfortunately, the people of Louisiana are not racists.

No intelligent black man or black woman in his or her right black mind wants white boys and white girls coming to their homes to marry their black sons and daughters.

Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.

Charity creates a multitude of sins.

As capitalism falters, the rich move their money out of the country, violence increases, and politicians promising prosperity are elected.

Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.

The notion that we have even one single veteran living on the streets should be just considered a travesty to all of us.

I’ve been actually really very pleased to see how much awareness was raised around bullying, and how deeply it affects everyone. You know, you don’t have to be the loser kid in high school to be bullied. Bullying and being picked on comes in so many different forms.

All movements go too far.

The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.

War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.

I think that gay marriage should be between a man and a woman.

Homophobia is real in this country.

Poverty is the mother of crime.

If you see oppression of the poor, and justice and righteousness trampled in a country, do not be astounded.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.

You know, if I listened to Michael Dukakis long enough, I would be convinced we’re in an economic downturn and people are homeless and going without food and medical attention and that we’ve got to do something about the unemployed.

As a country, we can’t teach kids how to read and write when we got 18 years to do it. And that’s – that’s a disgrace.

Giving a poor person money keeps them poor.

The reason people think it’s important to be white is that they think it’s important not to be black.

The white man is destroying the world.

I have spoken about inflation, unemployment, farmers‘ problems, security, etc. I keep talking about these issues. I seek answers from the Indian government.

There are thousands of boys being wasted daily to our country through being left to become characterless, and, therefore, useless wasters, a misery to themselves and an eyesore and a danger to the nation. They could be saved if only the right surroundings or environment were given to them at the receptive time of their lives.

Hate crime is not new in the United States.

I hate victims who respect their executioners.

Reagan was extreme. Beginning of his administration, one of the first things was to call in scabs – hadn’t been done for a long time, and it’s illegal in most countries – in the air controller strike.

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

I speak to the black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition.

It’s difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn’t available.

Well, yeah, people are working in our country. You know what? They’re working two and three jobs, and in our America, people should not have to work more than one job to be able to put food on the table and have a roof over their head.

All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.

Let’s be clear about this, and let’s be clear: we should not be creating incentives to house people in prison. We should be creating incentives instead to shut the revolving door into prison.

The true history of my administration will be written 50 years from now, and you and I will not be around to see it.

Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.

I know black people love the idea that we finally have a beautiful, good-looking black president. But if he is doing awful things to us, we should wake up.

The trend of opinion among eugenists is that we must make marriage more difficult. Certainly no one who is not a desirable parent should be permitted to produce progeny.

Violence has been Nicaragua’s most important export to the world.