Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country? The answer’s no. That’s not America. Is there something wrong with some seven-year-old Muslim American kid believing that he or she could be president?

We don’t need to share the same opinions as others, but we need to be respectful.

Sexism is real in this country.

Gay marriage is going to happen. It must.

I think that America’s recovery of a global strategic view is an absolutely essential element of our foreign policy.

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

Our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all and thought to include all; but now, to aid in making the bondage of the Negro universal and eternal, it is assailed, sneered at, construed, hawked at, and torn, till, if its framers could rise from their graves, they could not at all recognize it.

This is America. You’re entitled to believe what you want.

I think I’d be a better president because I was in combat.

My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.

The other day the President said, I know you’ve had some rough times, and I want to do something that will show the nation what faith that I have in you, in your maturity and sense of responsibility. He paused, then said, would you like a puppy?

I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.

It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.

We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.

The big message of gospel is that you don’t have to keep fighting the universe; you can stop, and the universe is quite good to you. There is a loss of ego.

I will never relent in defending America – whatever it takes.

When your soul is resting, your emotions are okay, your mind is okay, and your will is at peace with God, not resisting what He’s doing.

It’s annoying, but justice and equality are mates. Aren’t they? Justice always wants to hang out with equality. And equality is a real pain.

What’s done can’t be undone.

Here’s the thing. We do a movie with a predominantly black cast, and it’s put in a category of being a black film. When other movies are done with a predominantly white cast, we don’t call them a white film. I’m trying to remove the stigma off things they call black films.

That is America. That is America. Those bonds of affection; that common creed. We don’t fear the future; we shape it. We embrace it, as one people, stronger together than we are on our own.

The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.

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.

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

I came here in 1974 to do a play, and then I went to L.A. I really like living in America. I feel more at home here than anywhere else.

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.

America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.

We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant.

How could you have a soccer team if all were goalkeepers? How would it be an orchestra if all were French horns?

A president can ask for reconciliation in the racial conflict that divides Americans. But reconciliation comes only from the hearts of people.

The example that America knows how to govern itself is one of the compelling aspects of our national security.

And every human being is precious.

It’s not morbid to talk about death. Most people don’t worry about death, they worry about a bad death.

I think the whole stigma of ‚black movies‘ is slowly being lost. When you look at movies like ’12 Years A Slave,‘ to ‚The Butler,‘ to ‚The Best Man,‘ to ‚Ride Along,‘ to even ‚Think Like a Man‘ from last year – these movies are just good movies.

I don’t go down the road of condemning.

The Marine Corps is the Navy’s police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin’s.

I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.

Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

I don’t suffer of anything that I’ve lost.

The only definition by which America’s best days are behind it is on a purely relative basis.

‚Whole Women’s Health‘ made it very clear that poor women were no longer going to be left out.

We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.

I think what you’re seeing is a profound recognition on the part of the American people that gays and lesbians and transgender persons are our brothers, our sisters, our children, our cousins, our friends, our co-workers, and that they’ve got to be treated like every other American. And I think that principle will win out.

I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.

I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world.

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.

The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.

Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.

I am not afraid of death, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.

I can say with confidence there has never been a man or a woman – not me, not Bill, nobody – more qualified than Hillary Clinton to serve as president of the United States of America.

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

If I were to make public these tapes, containing blunt and candid remarks on many different subjects, the confidentiality of the office of the president would always be suspect.

But more than anything else, for the British folks Irish people were all terrorists. So when we went to Britain, it was always a lot of resistance to U2. And that’s why we came to America.

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.

For goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking you to do is to recognize that we are humans, too.

I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird.

So what we’re talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live, period. And what we’re facing in Africa is an unprecedented threat to human dignity and equality.

George Bush doesn’t care about black people.

The ideals and principles for which Dr King fought have never been forgotten and are as relevant today as they were 40 years ago.

I like everything. Boyish girls, girlish boys, the heavy and the skinny. Which is a problem when I’m walking down the street.

So many killings of black men in my lifetime. The physical shock is astounding.