To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.

Those who cry out that the government should ‚do something‘ never even ask for data on what has actually happened when the government did something, compared to what actually happened when the government did nothing.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.

I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

I think it makes sense to believe in God, but exactly what decision in your life you make differently because of it, I don’t know.

Occasionally the conflict between ‚what we stand for‘ and ‚what we do‘ has been forthrightly addressed.

There are only two forces that unite men – fear and interest.

If you want someone to say, ‚She’s so sweet, and she’s so cute, and, honey, point your foot,‘ that’s not my school. You can go to the YMCA and have a nobody teach your kid if that’s what you want to hear.

To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.

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

A President’s hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.

In too much of the West, everyone wants the guarantee of safety, and never having to make any decisions.

Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.

Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.

I can never say ‚why‘ about anything I do. I suppose I can say ‚how‘ and ‚when‘ and ‚what.‘ But ‚why‘ is impenetrable to me.

Our national determination to keep free of foreign wars and foreign entanglements cannot prevent us from feeling deep concern when ideals and principles that we have cherished are challenged.

I do not think I could myself be brought to support a man for office whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.

A people free to choose will always choose peace.

I make decisions all day, so it’s nice for a woman like me to go to dinner and have the man take the menu and say, ‚Let me order.‘ Other women would be offended by that, but I’m like, ‚Good. Because I can’t make one more decision today.‘ I want someone to rub my feet without being asked.

I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.

A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.

Hate has no place in the house of God.

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.

I think that there is never an indispensable leader, you know? I think that there is a time with dignity that one needs to leave.

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.

I’ll be judged on the body of work and not the popularity of any one decision.

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.

Money can’t buy life.

All religions must be tolerated… for every man must get to heaven in his own way.

Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good.

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.

The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else’s cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God – if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language. But be a blessing to somebody. That’s what I think.

Although the big word on the left is ‚compassion,‘ the big agenda on the left is dependency.

I don’t think I would run for president.

The ‚morality of compromise‘ sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don’t compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.

It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.

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.

We must respect the other fellow’s religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.

Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don’t interfere as long as the policy you’ve decided upon is being carried out.

I don’t care whether you’re driving a hybrid or an SUV. If you’re headed for a cliff, you have to change direction. That’s what the American people called for in November, and that’s what we intend to deliver.

Doing what’s right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what’s right.

There are many levels of Christianity. There are many notions about God. To believe that God is a person is just one of the notions of God that you can find in Christianity. So, we should not say that there is one Christianity. There are many Christianities.

Let’s just be smart this time. I’m looking for smart.

Intolerance betrays want of faith in one’s cause.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all do more to put the fire out. We’re standing around with watering cans, when what we really need is the fire brigade.

I don’t think Romney is wacky at all, but religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things, believe and affirm crazy things. Left on his own, Romney would never have said something like the Garden Of Eden was in Missouri, and will be again.

You should do what other people do, unless you have a very good reason not to.

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

There is probably a perverse pride in my administration… that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who’s occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can’t be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.

Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.

I’m the proof – you can’t throw away tradition.

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

I’m for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.

We have to rediscover the eternal values and then live them out.