All movements go too far.

I think where political issues invade moral situations, spiritual leaders have to speak out.

No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.

Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.

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

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.

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.

You pick up some fans and a handful of haters along the way.

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

When I look at public opinion, I’m not far out of the mainstream. I’m in it, in many respects. In some respects, public opinion goes beyond anything I’ve ever said.

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.

Freedom is not enough.

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

Today, the news is scandals; that is news, but the many children who don’t have food – that’s not news. This is grave. We can’t rest easy while things are this way.

A President cannot always be popular.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

I don’t believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career.

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.

The more people I reach, the more people there are that have opinions about me. Not everyone loves me, but I have to be okay no matter what they think about me.

The proper study of mankind is woman.

He who molds the public sentiment… makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.

One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

Unfortunately, the people of Louisiana are not racists.

In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.

I heard that when Christina Aguilera went back to her prom, people, like, booed her. I can’t imagine going through that. If you know that’s going to happen, why put yourself in that situation? I’d rather play for 20,000 screaming people, you know?

We should pass the U.N.’s Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism. At least it will clearly establish whom you view as a terrorist and whom you don’t. We need to delink terrorism from religion – to isolate terrorists who use this interchange of arguments between terrorism and religion.

Anti-Semitism is real in this country.

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.

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 common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.

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.

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.

Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.

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.

I hate victims who respect their executioners.

If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the troubles will come to an end, and the question which now distracts the country will be settled just as surely as all other difficulties of like character which have originated in this government have been adjusted.

The suicide-bombing community is not absolutely 100 percent religious, but it is pretty nearly 100 percent religious.

I’m lucky that, despite all the bad press I’ve had over the years, the public still seems to like me.

People are skeptical of many televangelists, and I’m sensitive to that.

We cannot insist only on issues related to abortion, gay marriage and the use of contraceptive methods. The teaching of the church is clear, and I am a son of the church, but it is not necessary to talk about these issues all the time.

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.

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.

The realities are that, you know, as a black man, you know, Barack can get shot going to the gas station, you know.

When the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one – it’s the first blow in a suicidal movement. I see the neglect in cities around the country, in poor white children in West Virginia and Virginia and Kentucky – in the big cities, too, for that matter.

Charity creates a multitude of sins.

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

There’s backlash about everything I do.

I will not sit in a room with black people when the N word is used. I know it was meant to belittle a person, so I will not sit there and have that poison put on me. Now a black person can say, ‚Oh, you know, I can use this word because I’m black.‘

Faith minus vulnerability and mystery equals extremism. If you’ve got all the answers, then don’t call what you do ‚faith.‘

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

Yes, we’ve still got more work to do. More work to do for every American still in need of a good job or a raise, paid leave or a decent retirement; for every child who needs a sturdier ladder out of poverty or a world-class education; for everyone who has not yet felt the progress of these past seven and a half years.

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

I consider ISIS nothing more than an excuse for Iran to continue its mischief.

As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest.

All I can say is I am sensitive to discrimination on any basis because I have experienced that upset.

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.

I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.

The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.

Even after Independence, we have had to face the poison of casteism and communalism. How long these evils will continue? Whom does it benefit?

Mitt Romney subscribes to the cynical logic that says the American dream belongs to some of us but not all of us.

Violence is both unavoidable and unjustifiable.