It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale.

What’s right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity – intellect and resources – to do some thing about them.

I understand that being able to appeal to the public and having an amazing sense of humour is not something that comes easy. It’s definitely a gift and for which I’m thankful.

Standing in support of children is something we should all be able to get behind, regardless of party affiliation.

It’s not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

We should take care not to make the intellect our goal; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.

I believe that every one of us has a gift. And I believe that mine is the ability to take the complex and make it simple.

You have to develop ways so that you can take up for yourself, and then you take up for someone else. And so sooner or later, you have enough courage to really stand up for the human race and say, ‚I’m a representative.‘

Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.

Tariffs that save jobs in the steel industry mean higher steel prices, which in turn means fewer sales of American steel products around the world and losses of far more jobs than are saved.

How come anything you buy will go on sale next week?

Our veterans who fall on hard times and find themselves without a home deserve more than just handwringing or kind words. They deserve real help that gets them back on their feet.

Of course we all know Biden is the intellect of the Democratic Party. Kind of a grin with a body behind it.

The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart.

No nation was ever ruined by trade.

I want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women.

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

In order to have your voice be heard in Washington, you have to make some little contribution.

The two things in the world we all share in this world are laughter and pain. We’ve all got problems. The levels of those problems vary, but we’ve all got problems. When you can take things that are painful and make them funny, that’s a gift – to you and your audience.

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

God cannot be realized through the intellect. Intellect can lead one to a certain extent and no further. It is a matter of faith and experience derived from that faith.

There are four Powers: memory and intellect, desire and covetousness. The two first are mental and the others sensual. The three senses: sight, hearing and smell cannot well be prevented; touch and taste not at all.

I personally have always been in favor of people who are gay being permitted to marry legally – and I still feel that way.

People really had a problem with my disinterest in submission. They had a problem with my intellect, and they had a problem with my choice of lovers. They had a problem with my choice of everything.

How can we help President Obama?

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

The idea that there is one kind of African is, of course, ridiculous. Sometimes African entrepreneurs want to kill you because you are saying public health is the priority, not roads. Of course they are right to press for that issue, but so are we right, I believe, to argue, for example, that millions of children could and should be vaccinated.

My dear sisters, whatever your calling, whatever your circumstances, we need your impressions, your insights, and your inspiration. We need you to speak up and speak out in ward and stake councils.

Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.

The protestor I think will speak up for the world’s poorest.

I am pro-education. I’m just anti the system.

These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.

The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.

I just feel that ‚The Color Purple,‘ which was my 10th book, was a true gift from my ancestors.

I just want to lobby for God.

Every nation has to follow a certain policy: Commercial, trade, various other types of policies.

Science is global. Einstein’s equation, E=mc2, has to reach everywhere. Science is a beautiful gift to humanity, we should not distort it. Science does not differentiate between multiple races.

The most common criticism I get is that I’m being manipulated and you shouldn’t use children in political ways, because that is abuse, and I can’t think for myself and so on. And I think that is so annoying! I’m also allowed to have a say – why shouldn’t I be able to form my own opinion and try to change people’s minds?

This is the moment when we must build on the wealth that open markets have created, and share its benefits more equitably. Trade has been a cornerstone of our growth and global development. But we will not be able to sustain this growth if it favors the few, and not the many.

If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair. We’d never have a friendship. We’d never go into business, because we’d be cynical. Well, that’s nonsense. You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.

Science is a beautiful gift to humanity; we should not distort it.

I was not an activist.

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me.

I’m very lucky. The public happens to like me. Maybe they like me because I use every opportunity to talk about injustice.

Seven hundred thousand people who have dementia in this country are not heard. I’m fortunate; I can be heard. Regrettably, it’s amazing how people listen if you stand up in public and give away $1 million for research into the disease, as I have done.

I’m a warrior for the middle class.

Now we’re in the midst of not just advocating for change, not just calling for change – we’re doing the grinding, sometimes frustrating work of delivering change – inch by inch, day by day.

If I have a platform and a voice, I should use it for my people.

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

Canada is rich in hydrocarbons and other natural resources… India’s requirements and Canada’s surplus are a perfect match.

Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.

I got a signed document from Bullock’s saying that they had such-and-such drawings on consignment. Of course, nobody bought any of them, but otherwise, I was a big success: I had my drawings on sale at Bullock’s!

I hope that people around the world will be as inspired as I am to step up and to speak out on behalf of girls around the world who struggle to go to school.

I’ve been fighting with Acorn, alongside Acorn, on issues you care about, my entire career.

Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.

I believe that the greatest gift you can give your family and the world is a healthy you.

Judge Afiuni has suffered enough. She has been subject to acts of violence and humiliations to undermine her human dignity. I am convinced that she must be set free.

For years, decades, the system has taught us to stay quiet. They’ve made us believe that those who take to the streets to speak up are crazy, criminals, troublemakers.

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.