If you think the United States has stood still, who built the largest shopping center in the world?

America is not nearly done. We’re only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows… what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants – if they survive that long – will see.

Of course humans like to explore, and we should. There’s nothing wrong with that. But it’s more than that. It’s essential for your children and your children’s children.

I suspect that even most conservatives would prefer to live in the kind of world conjured up in the liberals‘ imagination rather than in the kind of world we are in fact stuck with.

If you destroyed half the pharmaceutical production in the United States, we’d think it’s a pretty serious problem. In fact, we’d probably go to war.

For me, when you are have people wondering what is next, what is coming out, you are on the right track.

There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on the point of view.

I can hear you, the rest of the world can hear you and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.

Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.

This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.

Any negotiated, peaceful solution to the problems between the United States and peoples, or any people of Latin America, which does not imply force or the use of force, must be addressed in accordance with international principles and norms.

The United States has to move very fast to even stand still.

Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven’t had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln.

Right now, when we’re hearing so much disturbing and hateful rhetoric, it is so important to remember that our diversity has been – and will always be – our greatest source of strength and pride here in the United States.

Each generation doubtless feels called upon to reform the world. Mine knows that it will not reform it, but its task is perhaps even greater. It consists in preventing the world from destroying itself.

To innovate is not to reform.

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country’s cause.

In the United States, one of the main topics of academic political science is the study of attitudes and policy and their correlation. The study of attitudes is reasonably easy in the United States: heavily-polled society, pretty serious and accurate polls, and policy you can see, and you can compare them.

We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

Many badly needed goals, like fusion and cancer cure, would be achieved much sooner if we invested more.

Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.

Progressively saved by the machine from the anxieties that bound his hands and mind to material toil, relieved of a large part of his work and compelled to an ever-increasing speed of action by the devices which his intelligence cannot help ceaselessly creating and perfecting, man is about to find himself abruptly plunged into idleness.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

It is a quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws, but to break up both and make new ones.

If that’s there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it.

War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

I think America has always been polarized.

China has to go along with world trends. That’s democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward.

Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.

Innovation is moving at a scarily fast pace.

How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?

If I’d observed all the rules, I’d never have got anywhere.

The greatest thrill in my life was to represent the United States of America.

Well begun is half done.

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

The United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam.

There are nuclear-weapons-free zones in several parts of the world already, except that they’re not implemented fully, because the U.S. won’t allow it.

Our lifelong certainties about the world can be demolished in a single second.

The world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good.

My favorite time in the cycles of public life is the time when the Pope is dead and they haven’t elected a new one. There’s no one in the world who is infallible for those weeks. And you know, I don’t miss it.

There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.

To say that the United States has pursued diplomacy with North Korea is a little bit misleading. It did under the Clinton administration, though neither side completely lived up to their obligations. Clinton didn’t do what was promised, nor did North Korea, but they were making progress.

One thing I’ve tried to never do is make wish lists. I try to have a very steppingstone mentality about this whole thing, where as soon as you make one step you visualize the next step, not five steps ahead.

I think the positive competition between states in India is one of the most positive dynamics that the country has.

The alliance in Jammu and Kashmir is one of the most important developments on the contemporary political scene.

One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.

I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy.

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

Now you have a choice: we can give more tax breaks to corporations that ship jobs overseas, or we can start rewarding companies that open new plants and train new workers and create new jobs here, in the United States of America.

I consider myself to be as informed on American foreign policy as anyone in America.

The United States never stopped conspiring against the Arab world, which holds the largest oil reserves on the planet.

Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.

Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here.

I think technology really increased human ability. But technology cannot produce compassion.

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.

I don’t think a Jewish or Christian or Islamic state is a proper concept. I would object to the United States as a Christian state.

I tend not to look back and dwell on a project once it is finished.

Start wide, expand further, and never look back.