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.

If Jesus were here today, he wouldn’t be riding around on a donkey. He’d be taking a plane, he’d be using the media.

I don’t stand for the black man’s side, I don‘ t stand for the white man’s side. I stand for God’s side.

My wife doesn’t even want to spend 2 hours with me.

But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.

The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.

There is always another way to say the same thing that doesn’t look at all like the way you said it before. I don’t know what the reason for this is. I think it is somehow a representation of the simplicity of nature.

I’m sure most parents read to their children to explain what certain things mean. So books are a good way to convey a message to anybody. Everybody reads.

Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.

War is what happens when language fails.

Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.

For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.

But I’m pretty good with collaborative thinking. I work well with other people.

The question isn’t, ‚What do we want to know about people?‘, It’s, ‚What do people want to tell about themselves?‘

What makes us human, I think, is an ability to ask questions, a consequence of our sophisticated spoken language.

Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.

With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I’m going to press on for equality. I’m going to press on for the sake of our children. I’m going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I am going to press on.

If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge? We shouldn’t marginalise people for this. They must be integrated into society.

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

In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

Everybody has a job to do. There are people in Iraq on both sides of this war who do what they do for religious reasons, and they feel with God on their side. Some people are good at annihilating people. Maybe that’s their gift.

I just think you ought to talk straight with your people.

We believe that every single child has boundless promise, no matter who they are, where they come from, or how much money their parents have. We’ve got to remember that. We believe that each of these young people is a vital part of the great American story.

I just don’t believe in the basic concept that someone should make their whole career in public service.

I do not, in fact, use many puns. Certainly there are far fewer than people believe. But I suspect the ones I do occasionally use tend to hang around in people’s memories for a while.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.

When I’m nervous, I stutter, and I had to keep stopping and starting.

I am a Christian and a Democrat, that’s all.

Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.

You don’t want to negotiate the price of simple things you buy every day.

You have to listen very carefully and tell the truth if you are going to get a paranoid person to open up to you.

The second time around, I’ll understand that, as a husband, my wife doesn’t care about my opinions. I just need to tell her the things that will continue to help me stack the brownie points.

Silence speaks so much louder than screaming tantrums. Never give anyone an excuse to say that you’re crazy.

I hope that Facebook and other Internet technologies were able to help people, just like we hope that we help them communicate and organize and do whatever they want to every single day, but I don’t pretend that if Facebook didn’t exist, that this wouldn’t even be possible. Of course, it would have.

Ever since Newton, we’ve done science by taking things apart to see how they work. What the computer enables us to do is to put things together to see how they work: we’re now synthesized rather than analysed. I find one of the most enthralling aspects of computers is limitless communication.

My parents taught me never to judge others based on whom they love, what color their skin is, or their religion.

Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.

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.

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

I did not set out to convert anyone to Christianity.

America is known as a country that welcomes people to its shores. All kinds of people. The image of the Statue of Liberty with Emma Lazarus‘ famous poem. She lifts her lamp and welcomes people to the golden shore, where they will not experience prejudice because of the color of their skin, the religious faith that they follow.

My friend has a baby. I’m recording all the noises he makes so later I can ask him what he meant.

Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.

I’m blessed to have such a tight-knit family that we can talk about anything. Whether we talk frequently or not, since we’re on separate ends of the country, there are a lot of moving parts, and we always stay tight and find that center ground that keeps us together.

And we have done more in the two and a half years that I’ve been in here than the previous 43 Presidents to uphold that principle, whether it’s ending ‚don’t ask, don’t tell,‘ making sure that gay and lesbian partners can visit each other in hospitals, making sure that federal benefits can be provided to same-sex couples.

I let the dog out, or I let him in, and we talk some. I let him know I like him, and he lets me know he likes me.

Freedom is not enough.

When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it’s always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.

I truly believe the things Notre Dame stands for.

All of these young people have some kind of potential in them. And if we don’t invest in them as a nation, regardless of where they come from or what color they are, if we don’t invest in them, we lose.

We want everybody to act like adults, quit playing games, realize that it’s not just my way or the highway.

The problem with car dealerships is you’ve already decided what you want to buy before you even go there, and you’re really just going there to talk through some annoying negotiation.

Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.

Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.

I think that there’s no doubt that as I see friends, families, children of gay couples who are thriving, you know, that has an impact on how I think about these issues.

We’ve fallen into a trap of ever-widening orbits of contact, and there is a total disregard for the present moment.

When I talked to him on the phone yesterday. I called him George rather than Mr. Vice President. But, in public, it’s Mr. Vice President, because that is who he is.

The way I talk is bizarre.

More law, less justice.