America is the land of the second chance – and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.

These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.

I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.

My freshman and sophomore years in high school, I spent a lot of time trying to get back on the right track. I was arrested multiple times by the time I was 16, so I had a little harder time trying to adjust like a lot of us do in high school.

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

I don’t think anybody in America ought to be scared.

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

That is America. That is America. Those bonds of affection; that common creed. We don’t fear the future; we shape it. We embrace it, as one people, stronger together than we are on our own.

For diplomacy to be effective, words must be credible – and no one can now doubt the word of America.

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

I disagree with any policy that would turn America’s back on people who are fleeing harm. I frankly believe that it is contrary to everything that we have symbolically and actually said we stand for.

Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.

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

Are we simply waving farewell to the days when some of the most interesting thinking in Europe and America came to us from our fiction film-makers? BBC2, which once introduced and showed great films, now shows none.

Israel was not created in order to disappear – Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.

But more than anything else, for the British folks Irish people were all terrorists. So when we went to Britain, it was always a lot of resistance to U2. And that’s why we came to America.

I think that growing up in a crowded continent like Europe with an awful lot of competing claims, ideas… cultures… and systems of thought, we have, perforce, developed a more sophisticated notion of what the word ‚freedom‘ means than I see much evidence of in America.

Remember, the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability.

I’ve been fortunate. I don’t pick scripts. Scripts pick me.

America is not just a country, it’s an idea, and real Americans are getting busy.

It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.

I do know this… I seem to reach a lot of previously unchurched people. So many people have told me they never went to church until they heard our message of hope that God is a good God who desires to bless those who are faithful and obedient to Him through Jesus Christ.

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn’t standing still.

I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn’t know it then.

I don’t think the Christian Right dominates America in the way some in the media believe they do.

Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.

I still consider it a summer job, though. So, I try to maintain that summer job as long as I can. But it’s exciting to be able to have the opportunity to do things I always dreamed of as a kid.

Ladies and gentlemen, god bless America – land of the free, home of the brave.

Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.

I believe with all my heart that America remains ‚the great idea‘ that inspires the world. It is a privilege to be born here. It is an honor to become a citizen here. It is a gift to raise your family here, to vote here, and to live here.

We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.

Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.

The worst, most dangerous person to America is clearly Paula Deen.

Americans… still believe in an America where anything’s possible – they just don’t think their leaders do.

America’s experience, like many others, teaches us that fostering entrepreneurship is not just about crafting the right economic policy or developing the best educated curricula. It’s about creating an entire climate in which innovation and ideas flourish.

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways – either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. Thanks to the teachings of Buddha, I have been able to take this second way.

We don’t want an America that is closed to the world. What we want is a world that is open to America.

America is a Nation with a mission – and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace – a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman.

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

I always try to put a seed of hope into people’s hearts. I’m not there to teach them doctrine necessarily, but to let them know that God is a good God, and has a plan for their lives. Hopefully, that will restore their faith, or draw them into faith.

All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.

To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.

Lot of players lose hope because of lack of motivation.

When I was 18, I went to the Soviet Union. I kept hearing that America was planning to bomb them – lots of bombs were going to come down on these people. I went there not knowing anything, except that I thought the whole thing was stupid and that I wanted to see who these people were that we were going to bomb.

A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.

I have no further use for America. I wouldn’t go back there if Jesus Christ was President.

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.

There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there’s only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.

I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem – and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?

Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.

To me, we’re marketing hope.

These old ballparks are like cathedrals in America. We don’t have big old Gothic cathedrals like they do in Europe. But we got baseball parks.

I look forward to a great future for America – a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.

If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Prison life, fortunately, I spent a lot of years, about 18 years with other prisoners, and, as I say, they enriched your soul.

America is the greatest country in the world.

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.