Immigration laws are the only laws that are discussed in terms of how to help people who break them.

In the wake of the events of 11 September 2001, it now seems clear that the shock of the attacks was exploited in America.

El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras have all agreed to send additional consular officers from Guatemala, from Honduras, from El Salvador, send them to the U.S. border so that we can more quickly and humanely identify unaccompanied children and process their individual removal.

Bad food is made without pride, by cooks who have no pride, and no love. Bad food is made by chefs who are indifferent, or who are trying to be everything to everybody, who are trying to please everyone… Bad food is fake food… food that shows fear and lack of confidence in people’s ability to discern or to make decisions about their lives.

Government’s first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.

Humor is the most engaging cowardice.

I can analyze people’s intentions. Immediately. That’s just a warning. To everyone.

There are as many opinions as there are experts.

It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.

We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.

With the exception of gravitation and radioactivity, all of the phenomena known to physicists and chemists in 1911 have their ultimate explanation in the laws of quantum electrodynamics.

The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

There are two bowlers who I think are very tough to play against – Dale Steyn and Morne Morkel.

The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.

Atoms are very special: they like certain particular partners, certain particular directions, and so on. It is the job of physics to analyze why each one wants what it wants.

I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

The Army will take its lessons learned. They’re excellent at looking into themselves and reflecting on what did we do right, what did we do wrong.

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

The inquiry constantly is what will please, not what will benefit the people. In such a government there can be nothing but temporary expedient, fickleness, and folly.

I’m amazed sometimes by the Christians who don’t really believe that God wants to help them and bless them.

September 11 shocked many Americans into an awareness that they had better pay much closer attention to what the U.S. government does in the world and how it is perceived. Many issues have been opened for discussion that were not on the agenda before. That’s all to the good.

Worth seeing? Yes; but not worth going to see.

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.

America is known as a country that welcomes people to its shores. All kinds of people. The image of the Statue of Liberty with Emma Lazarus‘ famous poem. She lifts her lamp and welcomes people to the golden shore, where they will not experience prejudice because of the color of their skin, the religious faith that they follow.

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.

We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.

It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.

If anyone offers conjectures about the truth of things from the mere possibility of hypotheses, I do not see by what stipulation anything certain can be determined in any science, since one or another set of hypotheses may always be devised which will appear to supply new difficulties.

The secular argument, or the liberal argument, is to as much as possible remove taboos so things do not become unmentionable; to let some air into the discussion.

People who can’t be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.

If you believe in science, like I do, you believe that there are certain laws that are always obeyed.

We’ve got to keep our eye on what’s happening with Russia and North Korea. We cannot lose sight of domestic policy, either. Healthcare. Immigration. Climate change.

There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.

I’ve analyzed the best I can… and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course.

The difference is too nice – Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.

Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.

I disagree with any policy that would turn America’s back on people who are fleeing harm. I frankly believe that it is contrary to everything that we have symbolically and actually said we stand for.

Experts often possess more data than judgment.

My mother came from India to go to the University of California, Berkeley.

Thinking fragments reality – it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces.

It’s not a coincidence that in the Scriptures, poverty is mentioned more than 2,100 times. It’s not an accident. That’s a lot of air time, 2,100 mentions.

People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.

People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.

History should be written as philosophy.

Study men, not historians.

A president has an inescapable responsibility to provide direction: What are we trying to achieve? What are we trying to prevent? Why? To do that, he has to both analyze and reflect.

One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide.

We don’t want two-tier people in America. Those who are legal but not citizens, and citizens.

Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.

President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

The Koran shows every sign of being thrown together by human beings, as do all the other holy books.

It’s not the tools that you have faith in – tools are just tools. They work, or they don’t work. It’s people you have faith in or not. Yeah, sure, I’m still optimistic I mean, I get pessimistic sometimes but not for long.

As a Western, ‚The Magnificent Seven‘ was a pretty good film. I don’t think it was as interesting or as multi-faceted as ‚Seven Samurai.‘

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.

Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.