Obama’s policies have been approximately the same as Bush’s, though there have been some slight differences, but that’s not a great surprise. The Democrats supported Bush’s policies.

I don’t think the Tea Party people are racist, except maybe a tiny portion of them. But there has been a deliberate effort – again, referring to Fox Broadcasting – to inject the race issue into it. They have actually called Obama a racist on television.

When I would hear the rabbi tell about some miracle such as a bush whose leaves were shaking but there wasn’t any wind, I would try to fit the miracle into the real world and explain it in terms of natural phenomena.

Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.

At the Carter Center we work with victims of oppression, and we give support to human rights heroes.

Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.

Alimony – the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.

We are not going to be satisfied by politicians saying ‚we support you‘ and then walking away. We won’t be satisfied until they meet our demands and act. That’s why simply taking a selfie or posting support on Twitter isn’t enough. That’s why we have to keep striking.

Among us, who is above must be in service of the others. This doesn’t mean we have to wash each other’s feet every day, but we must help one another.

We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Working with our military community has been the biggest honor of my life.

The Occupy movement did create spontaneously communities that taught people something: you can be in a supportive community of mutual aid and cooperation and develop your own health system and library and have open space for democratic discussion and participation. Communities like that are really important.

The Democrats have pretty much given up on the white working class. That would require a commitment to economic issues, and that’s not their concern.

It seems that when you have cancer you are a brave battler against the disease, but when you have Alzheimer’s you are an old fart. That’s how people see you. It makes you feel quite alone.

England and America are two countries separated by the same language.

Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.

The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

I hate to see anybody sink. I hate to see anybody lose their dream, lose their home, something like that.

The Qataris have cut off support for the most extreme elements of terrorist organizations.

A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.

A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don’t function as we were meant to. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache. We hurt others. We get sick.

I supported Donald Trump.

I’ve married somebody who I knew for 14 years. So, I’m just living with a friend. All through my ups and downs in football, from winning the I-League to losing the ISL final, she has been a source of great support.

Hate, emotionalism, and frustration are not policies.

When younger writers and poets, musicians and painters are weakened by a stemming of funds, they come to me saddened, not as full of dreams and excitement and ideas. I am then weakened and diminished, and made less rich.

I met India Arie, who is one of my favorite artists of all time. It was really sweet; I was broken up with a month before, and she stayed up texting me all night and was helping me through it. Her text message looks like a song of hers. She’s sort of become my fairy godmother.

The greatest service that can be offered to children who show personality traits or inclinations that might not be understood by the adults around them is to allow them to express their own unique humanity.

The fame isn’t important to me. It’s a blessing to have. Having so many people that support me, that love me and listen to my music, is beautiful.

I personally never expected anything of Obama, and wrote about it before the 2008 primaries. I thought it was smoke and mirrors.

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

I’ve got incredible support from my wife and family and people around me. I’ve got great people around me who handle anything on the outside, business-wise, who help free me up to create in my job.

A woman can’t be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can’t do it by herself.

Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms.

We had problems like all families but we had a lot of love. I was extremely loved. We always felt we had each other.

If you want to reach the top, don’t run over others. Likely, the only way you’ll reach the top is to be carried there by others.

Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West. The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.

I’ll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it’s sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.

I am for people. I can’t help it.

To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him.

What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?

We’re African-American and we work together as a family, so people assume we’re like the Jacksons. But I didn’t have parents using me to get out of a bad situation.

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

Our teachers deserve better feedback.

I think there are a number of things that you can do to encourage your kids‘ dreams, but I do believe in speaking by experience of having a lot of help along the way, stumbling in the past. We’ve all stumbled, and we certainly all deserve to get up and walk again.

Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence.

Obama, of course, outspent McCain.

You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

I think every entertainer’s had nights when things go wrong. I mean you can’t remember everything all the time, and especially if you’re having hard times personally, things going on that you – you know, and then people make it worse. And that makes you feel worse.

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

You can’t have it all, all at once. Who – man or woman – has it all, all at once? Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all. But in different periods of time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

When you’re in prison, you want to know that you were thought about.

I can tell you all kinds of moral tales, but fashion and reality are vaguely different.

Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.

We have a great group of guys that really sacrifice every night, care about each other, and try to play the right away.

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

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?‘

When Nirvana became popular, you could very easily slip and get lost during that storm. I fortunately had really heavy anchors – old friends, family.

He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.

They need help, and we have helped, and we are here to help. And we are helping, and we’re going to continue to help.

Rose Adams is a wonderful Christian woman who cared for my mother, Morrow Coffey Graham, in her last years of life.