I understood that with the swipe of my pen as a prosecutor, I would have the decision in my pen to make a decision about someone’s life.

We do need women in civic life. We do need women to run for office, to be in political office. We need a feminist to be at the table when decisions are being made so that the right decisions will be made.

Never pray for justice, because you might get some.

I was offered a job on Wall Street by my uncle. But I wanted to get out. Make-it-on-my-own kinda thing.

Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.

Being flooded with information doesn’t mean we have the right information or that we’re in touch with the right people.

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.

Frankly, I think that the news industry is critically important because it points out things and surfaces truths that can often be uncomfortable. I think that that’s working, and the spotlight has been pointed on things that we have a responsibility to do better, and I accept that.

When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.

For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

And it comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don’t get on the wrong track or try to do too much. We’re always thinking about new markets we could enter, but it’s only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really important.

Those who cry out that the government should ‚do something‘ never even ask for data on what has actually happened when the government did something, compared to what actually happened when the government did nothing.

Law is mind without reason.

Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.

A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

I think that there is never an indispensable leader, you know? I think that there is a time with dignity that one needs to leave.

It’s OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.

Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

If a man had more than one life, I think a little hanging would not hurt this one; but after he is once dead, we cannot bring him back, no matter how sorry we may be; so the boy shall be pardoned.

No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.

A lot of times, people make other people responsible for their joy: ‚You’re not making me happy, you’re not doing this, you’re not doing that.‘

The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing – that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of our world – is what I wish for all.

Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

I am not deeply involved in Australian politics but I know there are prime ministers, governments around the world who are not acting responsibly in relation to climate change.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.

Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we never get to vote on what he is to do.

Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.

I can never say ‚why‘ about anything I do. I suppose I can say ‚how‘ and ‚when‘ and ‚what.‘ But ‚why‘ is impenetrable to me.

Feels good to try, but playing a father, I’m getting a little older. I see now that I’m taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.

Indecision may or may not be my problem.

I won’t do something unless I can get at least two or three good laughs out of it. If I can’t, it’s not gonna make the team.

What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me.

I’ve got a pen and I’ve got a phone – and I can use that pen to sign executive orders and take executive actions and administrative actions that move the ball forward.

A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer’s hand.

My biographers… would like to have my time at the court almost complete before they finish the book. We decided… to flip the order.

Our DNA is as a consumer company – for that individual customer who’s voting thumbs up or thumbs down. That’s who we think about. And we think that our job is to take responsibility for the complete user experience. And if it’s not up to par, it’s our fault, plain and simply.

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

Scientists are not delinquents. Our work has changed the conditions in which men live, but the use made of these changes is the problem of governments, not of scientists.

I don’t think you ever really know what all you’re doing, so you have to act on faith.

In our obscurity – in all this vastness – there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us.

If you make up your own mind, you can only blame yourself.

Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.

The more a person seeks security, the more that person gives up control over their life.

It’s not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewere, would much rather you weren’t doing.

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don’t seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.

I have always believed in evolving a consensus before taking any major decision.

Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries – for heavy ones they cannot.

Being prime minister is a lonely job… you cannot lead from the crowd.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one’s self to destiny.

Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.

It’s been my experience in politics that you can try and plan it out: ‚I’m going to hit the three ball which will hit the eight ball.‘ You’ve just got to go run and try to do everything right. And then have a little luck.

My father, who was jailed for stealing on more than one occasion, just abandoned his fatherly responsibilities and disappeared. I grew up working from the time I was nine years of age. Money was a big issue everywhere I lived.

It is a fine game to play – the game of politics – and it is well worth waiting for a good hand before really plunging.