I speak to you only as an American who happens to be an American Negro and one who is proud of that heritage. We ask for nothing special. We ask only that we be permitted to compete on an even basis, and if we are not worthy, then the competition shall, per se, eliminate us.

A right delayed is a right denied.

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.

I have some good friends of my own who happen to be gay, and when it comes to gay, straight, or whatever, I’m for anything life-affirmative. I’m for gay power, straight power, male power, female power; everybody should feel empowered without oppressing anyone who’s different.

I can easily imagine Obama sitting down and talking to any leader – or any person – in the world, with no baggage of past servitude or race supremacy to mar their talks.

Four legs good, two legs bad.

Black Americans, no more than white Americans, they do not want more government programs which perpetuate dependency. They don’t want to be a colony in a nation.

There are a lot of good women in New York.

Every driver is different, so I just hope whatever I do is going to be good enough, because it’s not that I just want to be with McLaren. I want to win with McLaren.

I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.

If you want to appeal to everyone, you can’t do a world tour and expect black people to show up at every date – when you’re in Australia, when you’re in Dubai, when you’re in Indonesia.

An index is a great leveller.

My first win feels better than a draw!

There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.

All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.

God tells us not to judge one another, no matter what anyone’s sexual preferences are or if they’re black, brown or purple.

No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.

The seven-inch tablets are tweeners: too big to compete with a smartphone, and too small to compete with an iPad.

‚Hope and change‘ has become a cliche in our nation, and it is daunting to think that any American could hope for change from what God has blessed.

The Iraqis have become invested in their nationhood.

Women feel empowered when they can do the things that are supposed to be only for men, you know? It breaks boundaries, it’s liberating, and it’s empowering when you feel like, ‚Well, I can do that, too.‘

It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.

I’m not focused on the gay and lesbian movement.

I don’t know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.

By ancestry, I was born to rule.

Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.

I stand for anti-bigotry, anti-Semitism, and anti-racism.

I wrote an article on a new Porsche for ‚Automobile Magazine.‘ I knew the editor, and she asked me to write this article. So I’m more proud of that than anything.

I’m not denyin‘ the women are foolish. God Almighty made ‚em to match the men.

There is a danger that threatens everyone in the church, all of us. The danger of worldliness. It leads us to vanity, arrogance and pride.

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

I’m proud of ‚Stop Making Sense,‘ but it’s a little bit of an albatross; I can’t compete with it, but I can’t ignore it either.

Where you live in the world should not determine whether you live in the world.

Wouldn’t it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?

We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other discrimination.

Antitrust is the way that the government promotes markets when there are market failures. It has nothing to do with the idea of free information.

A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one.

What is Champions League level? I saw a lot of rubbish games at Champions League level.

A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.

Cultures, for better or worse, are very stable.

In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.

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

I was poor white trash, no glitter, no glamour, but I’m not ashamed of anything.

Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.

Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap – let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges; let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs; let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice.

The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free.

One of the things people don’t really recognise about the similarities between country and hip-hop is that they’re celebrations of pride in a lifestyle.

I am happy and proud to play for my country and my club Mohun Bagan.

One is lucky to be born in a place where no one is doing it, because then you can say, ‚Well, obviously I can write better than everyone else in high school.‘ You have no idea of the competition.

Except for the title ‚father,‘ there is no title, including ‚vice president,‘ that I am more proud to wear than that of United States senator.

The victor belongs to the spoils.

Are we a nation that educates the world’s best and brightest in our universities, only to send them home to create businesses in countries that compete against us? Or are we a nation that encourages them to stay and create jobs, businesses, and industries right here in America?

The honor of a nation is its life.

We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.

I felt like, for so many years – and I still even feel it – as a girl, you can’t really expect to go on stage and dress like a boy and jump around and scream with the audience and mosh and stuff, and every time that happens, I feel really proud.

Our constitution is a ray of hope: H for harmony, O for Opportunity, P for people’s participation and E for equality.

If we do not lift up women and families, everyone will fall short.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it.