I want to reform the tax code so that it’s simple, fair, and asks the wealthiest households to pay higher taxes on incomes over $250,000 – the same rate we had when Bill Clinton was president; the same rate we had when our economy created nearly 23 million new jobs, the biggest surplus in history, and a lot of millionaires to boot.

Justice is the set and constant purpose which gives every man his due.

I describe myself as a simple Buddhist monk. No more, no less.

The last suit that you wear, you don’t need any pockets.

Simple goes a long way.

Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

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

We help Chinese companies grow their customers abroad. They use Facebook ads to find more customers. For example, Lenovo used Facebook ads to sell its new phone. In China, I also see economic growth. We admire it.

The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.

I always thought that if I made it big or got successful at what I had started out to do, that I wanted to come back to my part of the country and do something great, something that would bring a lot of jobs into this area.

My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

Life isn’t fair, but God is.

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

Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.

‚Obama and Biden want to raise taxes by a trillion dollars.‘ Guess what? Yes, we do in one regard: We want to let that trillion dollar tax cut expire so the middle class doesn’t have to bear the burden of all that money going to the super-wealthy. That’s not a tax raise. That’s called fairness where I come from.

If we choose to keep those tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires, if we choose to keep a tax break for corporate jet owners, if we choose to keep tax breaks for oil and gas companies that are making hundreds of billions of dollars, then that means we’ve got to cut some kids off from getting a college scholarship.

I never sympathise with the accused unless there’s a chance the accused is not guilty, but I certainly don’t ever sympathise with the criminal.

First, how do we give everyone a fair shot at opportunity and security in this new economy? Second, how do we make technology work for us, and not against us – especially when it comes to solving urgent challenges like climate change? Third, how do we keep America safe and lead the world without becoming its policeman?

It is right to give every man his due.

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

God always takes the simplest way.

Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States.

Yes, the Bible should be taught in our schools because it is necessary to understand the Bible if we are to truly understand our own culture and how it came to be. The Bible has influenced every part of western culture from our art, music, and history, to our sense of fairness, charity, and business.

There is always another way to say the same thing that doesn’t look at all like the way you said it before. I don’t know what the reason for this is. I think it is somehow a representation of the simplicity of nature.

Grow in the root of all grace, which is faith. Believe God’s promises more firmly than ever. Allow your faith to increase in its fullness, firmness, and simplicity.

Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends… Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

Take the complications, rules, shoulds, musts, have tos, and so on out of your life. By uncomplicating your life and removing the trivial pursuits that occupy so much of it, you open a channel for the genius within you to emerge.

It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately.

If people wonder, yes, Hillary Clinton is my friend. She has been a friend to me and Barack and Malia and Sasha, and Bill and Chelsea have been embracing and supportive from the very day my husband took the oath of office.

I love a natural look in pictures.

Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established.

Simplicity is a key to avoiding complication. Part of the definition of simplicity is ‚not complex or complicated; sincere.‘

People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.

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?

I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.

For the record, our democracy is revered around the world. And free elections are the best way on Earth to choose our leaders. This is how we elected John F. Kennedy; Ronald Reagan; two George Bushes; Bill Clinton; and Barack Obama. It has worked for decades.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

Simplify, simplify.

For a successful entrepreneur it can mean extreme wealth. But with extreme wealth comes extreme responsibility. And the responsibility for me is to invest in creating new businesses, create jobs, employ people, and to put money aside to tackle issues where we can make a difference.

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.

If you realize all the time what’s kind of wonderful – that is, if we expand our experience into wilder and wilder regions of experience – every once in a while, we have these integrations when everything’s pulled together into a unification, in which it turns out to be simpler than it looked before.

The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.

I had very good support from Democrats and Republicans all throughout my administration. I had a very high batting average. We added more jobs per year in my four years than any other president since the Second World War.

We are certainly not to relinquish the evidence of experiments for the sake of dreams and vain fictions of our own devising; nor are we to recede from the analogy of Nature, which is wont to be simple and always consonant to itself.

There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.

I don’t really have any gimmicks. I don’t actually do anything that’s strange. I don’t even wear weird things.

Behold the child, by Nature’s kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.

Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.

New markets could be created by rural potentials, which could lead to rise in the employment.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

The Recovery Act is working, but it’s going to continue to work. It’s not over. A lot’s going to happen this summer. And even after the summer, there’s more to come with the act.

All truth is simple… is that not doubly a lie?

More law, less justice.

Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.

I’m just a simple country girl.