All of us take offense to anyone who reaps the rewards of living in America without taking on the responsibilities of living in America. And undocumented immigrants who desperately want to embrace those responsibilities see little option but to remain in the shadows, or risk their families being torn apart.

We need to pass comprehensive immigration reform, period.

Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.

So while I will never minimize the costs involved in military action, I am convinced that a failure to act in Libya would have carried a far greater price for America.

To terrify children with the image of hell… to consider women an inferior creation. Is that good for the world?

America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there.

And so I think that the idea of America working with other countries to solve problems is good for us, and it is part of digging us out of the ‚my way or the highway‘ approach that was evident in the previous eight years.

I came here in 1974 to do a play, and then I went to L.A. I really like living in America. I feel more at home here than anywhere else.

I said that America’s role would be limited; that we would not put ground troops into Libya; that we would focus our unique capabilities on the front end of the operation, and that we would transfer responsibility to our allies and partners.

When I do a picture and it’s 90% black, like ‚Bird,‘ I use 90% black people.

Homophobia is real in this country.

There will be gay couples; it will exist. It is not very nice that people who are married – who divorce in three seconds – don’t want protection for the others. The legal system should protect everyone, not just the few people who think they are above everybody else because they are married.

The glamour of it all! New York! America!

The entering class I joined in 1956 included just nine women, up from five in the then second-year class, and only one African American. All professors, in those now-ancient days, were of the same race and sex.

Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn’t matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.

America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.

I saw what happened when a dictator was allowed to take over a piece of a country and the country went down the tubes. And I saw the opposite during the war when America joined the fight.

There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.

Don’t let anybody make you think God chose America as His divine messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world.

The poetry you read has been written for you, each of you – black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay, straight.

I can assure you that my first and foremost interest is my country.

In this country, it doesn’t make any difference where you were born. It doesn’t make any difference who your parents were. It doesn’t make any difference if, like me, you couldn’t even speak English until you were in your twenties.

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.

I speak to the black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition.

I have a feeling that I make a very good friend, and I’m a good mother, and a good sister, and a good citizen. I am involved in life itself – all of it. And I have a lot of energy and a lot of nerve.

You would have a huge statelessness problem if you don’t consider a child born abroad a U.S. citizen.

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

I will never relent in defending America – whatever it takes.

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.

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

The example that America knows how to govern itself is one of the compelling aspects of our national security.

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.

I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we’ve struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We’ve made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.

Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.

I believe in the spirit of equality and the spirit of this country as one of love and compassion and kindness.

There are so many men and women who hold no distinctive positions but whose contribution towards the development of society has been enormous.

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

People seem to know about May Day everywhere except where it began, here in the United States of America. That’s because those in power have done everything they can to erase its real meaning.

America isn’t Congress. America isn’t Washington. America is the striving immigrant who starts a business, or the mom who works two low-wage jobs to give her kid a better life. America is the union leader and the CEO who put aside their differences to make the economy stronger.

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

Public education is our greatest pathway to opportunity in America. So we need to invest in and strengthen our public universities today, and for generations to come.

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.

When Hillary served in the Senate, I saw her work day and night as a member of the Armed Services Committee – working with Republicans and Democrats to keep our military strong and protect our troops and their families.

Today, Negroes play on every big league club and in every minor league. With millions of other Negroes in other walks of life, we are willing to stand up and be counted for what we believe in. In baseball or out, we are no longer willing to wait until Judgment Day for equality – we want it here on earth as well as in Heaven.

In Europe first and now in America, elected men have taken it upon themselves to indebt their people to create an atmosphere of dependency. And why? For their own selfish need to increase their own personal power.

Whether women are better than men I cannot say – but I can say they are certainly no worse.

One child must never be set above another, even in casual conversation, not to mention in speeches that circle the globe.

The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.

We are America, second to none, and we own the finish line. Don’t forget it.

Men and women aren’t the same. And they won’t be the same. That doesn’t mean that they can’t be treated fairly.

My heart aches for America and its deceived people.

We are all alike, on the inside.

Selling an electric sports car creates an opportunity to fundamentally change the way America drives.

On September 11 2001, America felt its vulnerability even to threats that gather on the other side of the Earth. We resolved then, and we are resolved today, to confront every threat from any source that could bring sudden terror and suffering to America.

I am deeply grateful to the citizens of Sarajevo and the Sarajevo Canton assembly for bestowing upon me this incredible honor of citizenship. I am so proud to now be a part of such an extraordinary part of the world and fellow citizen to the people I deeply love and admire.

I think there ought to be a strict separation or wall built between our religious faith and our practice of political authority in office. I don’t think the President of the United States should extoll Christianity if he happens to be a Christian at the expense of Judaism, Islam or other faiths.

Undocumented aliens unfortunately are not protected by the law, and they are tremendously subjected to exploitation. The result is that they would be willing to work for a wage that no person who is welcome in our shores would take.

When you single out any particular group of people for secondary citizenship status, that’s a violation of basic human rights.

I’m not in favour of dividing Hindus and Sikhs. I’m not in favour of dividing Hindus and Christians. All the citizens, all the voters, are my countrymen.

I’m not for gay marriage, but I’m not for discriminating against people.

We’ve got to keep our eye on what’s happening with Russia and North Korea. We cannot lose sight of domestic policy, either. Healthcare. Immigration. Climate change.