A fundamentalist can’t bring himself or herself to negotiate with people who disagree with them because the negotiating process itself is an indication of implied equality.

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn’t intended.

Hear reason, or she’ll make you feel her.

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

Money has a language of its own.

There is no question that liberals do an impressive job of expressing concern for blacks. But do the intentions expressed in their words match the actual consequences of their deeds?

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

When I was elected President nobody asked me to negotiate between Israel and Egypt. It was not even a question raised in my campaign. But I felt that one of the reasons that I was elected President was to try to bring peace to the Holy Land.

Foreign policy is like human relations, only people know less about each other.

So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.

Do not tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don’t tell them where they know the fish.

What I believe is that marriage is between a man and a woman, but what I also believe is that we have an obligation to make sure that gays and lesbians have the rights of citizenship that afford them visitations to hospitals, that allow them to be, to transfer property between partners, to make certain that they’re not discriminated on the job.

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

For goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking you to do is to recognize that we are humans, too.

One of my direct subordinates, one of my guys that worked for me, he would call me up or pull me aside with some major problem, some issue that was going on. And he’d say, ‚Boss, we’ve got this, and that, and the other thing.‘ And I’d look at him and I’d say, ‚Good.‘

One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.

One must steer, not talk.

Convictions, in the end, they can be dangerous, but a world without them is just kind of an awful kind of gray, amorphous mass.

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

The true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

Yes, I, well, when I write, as often as I can, I try to write as if I’m talking to people. It doesn’t always work, and one shouldn’t always try it, but I try and write as if I am talking, and trying to engage the reader in conversation.

When you have nothing important or interesting to say, don’t let anyone persuade you to say it.

I write all my sermons.

Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.

I don’t have any oratory skills. But I would not use them if I had.

Christians are not limited to any church.

I was always respectful of people who were deeply religious because I always felt that if they gave themselves to it, then it had to be important to them. But if you can go through life without it, that’s OK, too. It’s whatever suits you.

The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

I don’t believe in colleges and universities.

Nobody has ever convinced me that race is real.

One might say that our words are a movie screen that reveals what we have been thinking and the attitudes we have.

We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.

It doesn’t matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I’m a woman or a man.

Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don’t know that I’m doing it, usually.

Dialogue means debates and everyone’s point of view.

I am not one who – who flamboyantly believes in throwing a lot of words around.

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

I did not set out to convert anyone to Christianity.

High-quality early-childhood programs and health coverage have expanded, and the number of mentoring relationships for at-risk youth has risen dramatically. That progress is encouraging, but it’s not evenly distributed.

When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it’s like giving them emotional oxygen.

Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.

‚Good English‘ is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.

I’ve always wanted male friends that I could be real intimate with and talk about important things with and be as affectionate with that person as I would be with a girl.

In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another – until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.

I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over.

A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares.

If your man is a sports enthusiast, you may have to resign yourself to his spouting off in a monotone on a prize fight, football game or pennant race.

You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country.

I have an answering machine in my car. It says, I’m home now. But leave a message and I’ll call when I’m out.

You definitely want your kids to understand their heritage, but I don’t want my kids to just focus on being black. They are people. I don’t want them to judge other people or to be judged. I want them to be good people, so good people will treat them accordingly. I preach that to my kids and everything else falls into place.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

Clean fighting solves everything. It ends all bad blood and any ill feelings people have. That’s my thoughts.

Basketball is my passion, I love it. But my family and friends mean everything to me. That’s what’s important. I need my phone so I can keep in contact with them at all times.

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.

It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.

When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it’s the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone’s talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images, devious and prejudicial language, dubious linkages, weak or false ‚intelligence‘ and selected ‚leaks.‘

People talk to people who perceive nothing, who have open eyes and see nothing; they shall talk to them and receive no answer; they shall adore those who have ears and hear nothing; they shall burn lamps for those who do not see.