I’m just blessed, man, to be able to represent solidarity with the small schools I went to.

I seem to be getting a lot of things pushed my way that are strong women. It’s like people see Hackers and they send me offers to play tough women with guns, the kind who wear no bra and a little tank top. I’d like to play strong women who are also very feminine.

If you care about other people, you might try to organize to undermine power and authority. That’s not going to happen if you care only about yourself.

One of the good things about the way the Gulf War ended in 1991 is, you’d see the Vietnam veterans marching with the Gulf War veterans.

It’s a representation of yourself, and you can express a lot of your creativity with what your wearing.

The worker of the world has nothing to lose, but their chains, workers of the world unite.

I’m an entrepreneur. I’m a young mogul. I’m blessed.

The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.

We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.

Governments are not representative. They have their own power, serving segments of the population that are dominant and rich.

We walk together, we move together, we think together, we resolve together, and together we take this country forward.

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

Every day, the people I meet inspire me… every day, they make me proud… every day they remind me how blessed we are to live in the greatest nation on earth.

The blessed of us must save the less of us. I’m blessed, and yeah, I’m planning to go to Heaven.

It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles – the oppression of tyranny – to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

Here’s the thing: every office I’ve run for I was the first to win. First person of color. First woman. First woman of color. Every time.

Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we squandered an obvious opportunity to make service a noble cause again, and rekindle an American spirit of community.

I refuse to allow any man-made differences to separate me from any other human beings.

In my work and in myself I reflect black people, women and men, as I reflect others. One day even the most self-protective ones will look into the mirror I provide and not be afraid.

I see Americans of every party, every background, every faith who believe that we are stronger together: black, white, Latino, Asian, Native American; young, old; gay, straight; men, women, folks with disabilities, all pledging allegiance under the same proud flag to this big, bold country that we love. That’s what I see. That’s the America I know!

I just think overall there’s not as many female ministers than there are male ministers.

I love stuff from the Holy Land. It makes me feel blessed.

In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up – or else we all go down.

Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

For so many people, television and movies may be the only way they understand people who aren’t like them.

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

To our brothers in Latin America and the world, we must convey that the Cuban people will overcome.

Whenever our neighbour’s house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.

Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.

The way I try to represent my family and coaches, I think all are characteristics the league aspires to portray. That’s just who I am.

I’ve been fortunate to have had the life I had prior to Hollywood. I wasn’t starving; I was going to eat the next day.

You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.

I grew up in a rural area called Vega Baja and I’m the first of so many talented people in this area to make it out. I take great pride to represent where I come from and I am able to show my fans, and everyone who listens and watches me, that anything is possible.

I know why we’re strong. I know why we have held together; I know why we are united: it’s because there’s always been a growing middle class.

I know some really outstanding Turkish journalists, and have been pleased and honored to be able to join with them a few times in their courageous protests against state terror and repression.

There are folks who now know black families – like the Johnsons on ‚Black-ish‘ or the folks on ‚Modern Family.‘ They become part of who you are. You share their pains. You understand their fears. They make you laugh, and they change how you see the world.

Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.

My job is not to represent Washington to you, but to represent you to Washington.

The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.

During bad circumstances, which is the human inheritance, you must decide not to be reduced. You have your humanity, and you must not allow anything to reduce that. We are obliged to know we are global citizens. Disasters remind us we are world citizens, whether we like it or not.

The fact is, when men carry the same ideals in their hearts, nothing can isolate them – neither prison walls nor the sod of cemeteries. For a single memory, a single spirit, a single idea, a single conscience, a single dignity will sustain them all.

In our personal ambitions we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go up or else all go down as one people.

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

I speak directly to the people, and I know that the people of California want to have better leadership. They want to have great leadership. They want to have somebody that will represent them. And it doesn’t matter if you’re a Democrat or a Republican, young or old.

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

I see myself in all the people in the world who are suffering and who are very badly treated and who are often made to feel that they have no place on this Earth.

Apple has given me a platform to spread music. They’re giving us Latinos a chance to shine.

Solidarity is an attitude of resistance, I suppose, or it should be.

I felt rich when I was 20 years old and my wife was paying my bills. Just being in a band, I’ve always felt blessed.

There’s always an element of self delusion among people who believe they ought to be President. There’s an underestimation of your opponent and an overestimation of your own abilities. This is compatible with being rich and powerful, the idea that we were blessed by God because we deserve to be blessed.

The outpouring of support from millions of people in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti has been impressive.

Everything I do, I hope, is that I represent something, and I represent the right things to my children and give them the right sense of what they’re capable of and the world as it should be seen.

When I do a picture and it’s 90% black, like ‚Bird,‘ I use 90% black people.

My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.

Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.

We will stand up for our friends in the world. And one of the most important friends is the State of Israel. My administration will be steadfast in support Israel against terrorism and violence, and in seeking the peace for which all Israelis pray.

It’s good to remember that in crises, natural crises, human beings forget for awhile their ignorances, their biases, their prejudices. For a little while, neighbors help neighbors and strangers help strangers.

In order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The sea, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death… these are things that unite us all.

It is a curious thing: man, the centre and creator of all science, is the only object which our science has not yet succeeded in including in a homogeneous representation of the universe. We know the history of his bones, but no ordered place has yet been found in nature for his reflective intelligence.

Whether we’re Democrats, Republicans, or independents – it does not matter. We all understand that an attack on any one of us is an attack on all of us.