Obama’s policies have been approximately the same as Bush’s, though there have been some slight differences, but that’s not a great surprise. The Democrats supported Bush’s policies.

As international support for Obama’s decision to attack Syria has collapsed, along with the credibility of government claims, the administration has fallen back on a standard pretext for war crimes when all else fails: the credibility of the threats of the self-designated policeman of the world.

I knew through the surgeries that he was on my side and that this wasn’t something where I was gonna feel less of a woman, because my husband wasn’t gonna let that happen.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

With all the… success that I’ve been lucky enough to get? That doesn’t happen unless the home life is solid.

For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you’d would wake up times and hope that the next day you’d be able to be alongside your mother because she was out trying to make sure that I was taken care of. But all I cared about was her being home.

My father will anticipate everything. He will leave you and me no chance to do a great and brilliant deed.

You know, you can only lead them from behind.

A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don’t function as we were meant to. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache. We hurt others. We get sick.

You have your ideology and I have mine.

If you are not being bullied all I would say – cause I like to talk about the other side of it as well – is you know, be someone that nurtures, and if there’s someone in your class that maybe doesn’t have a lot of friends, be the person that sits with them in the cafeteria sometimes; be the bigger person.

Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.

It’s not just a matter of whether you support Obama or Romney. It’s who they have coming with them. I always keep my powder dry, as they say in the military.

Still and all, why bother? Here’s my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.

We inhabit a universe that is characterized by diversity.

I heard that when Christina Aguilera went back to her prom, people, like, booed her. I can’t imagine going through that. If you know that’s going to happen, why put yourself in that situation? I’d rather play for 20,000 screaming people, you know?

If people continue to feel like Democrats are looking after poor folks and Republicans are looking after rich folks and nobody is looking after me, then we don’t get a lot of stuff done. And the trend lines evidence the fact that folks have gotten squeezed. And obviously, 2007, 2008 really ripped open for people how vulnerable they were.

My parents are my backbone. Still are. They’re the only group that will support you if you score zero or you score 40.

Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.

You have to give others the opportunity to love who you love. If they don’t accept it, it’s their loss.

I’m so tough and so bad, I can be humble and lift another guy up.

I think sometimes the critics want me to beat people down, and that’s not in me. I want to lift people up.

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

In cricket, my superhero is Sachin Tendulkar. He has always been my hero and will continue to remain so. Apart from him and outside cricket, my mother has remained my inspiration. Whatever difficult time I had faced, she was always there for me. She has given me all the strength. She maintained her composure and supported me in tough times.

The Revolution did not assume a socialist nature because of support from the U.S.S.R.; it was the other way around: support from the U.S.S.R. was produced by the socialist nature of the Cuban Revolution. To such a degree, that when the U.S.S.R. disappears, Cuba keeps on being socialist.

There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.

I can’t relate to lazy people. We don’t speak the same language. I don’t understand you. I don’t want to understand you.

I just genuinely feel that that’s what you do when you’re an artist: You stick up for the people around you.

Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.

Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.

If I inspire you, pay for it, period.

When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.

Unfortunately, after Sept. 11, there was an outburst in America of intense suffering and patriotism, and the Bush administration was very shrewd and effective in painting anyone who disagreed with the policies as unpatriotic or even traitorous.

I give thanks to God and to all the people in the U.K. who have supported me over the years.

A woman can’t be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can’t do it by herself.

I love Africa, and Ulusaba, our home in South Africa, is pretty special. It’s on a rocky hill overlooking the bush, and from your room, you can see lions stalking zebras by the waterhole.

Working with our military community has been the biggest honor of my life.

My wife and I don’t compete. We know each other’s preferences, and we work to provide those for each other. One will take over when the other is faced with something he or she dislikes. That’s what friends do.

I wouldn’t say that anyone in fashion is on my side. I don’t think there’s anyone on my side.

I hear my friends and my mom tell me I’m special, but honestly, I still don’t get it.

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.

Since I’m the president and Democrats have controlled the House and the Senate, it’s understandable that people are saying, you know, ‚What have you done?‘

I go through a lot of depression, and I know other people do, too, but I have an outlet that so many people don’t. If you have that inside of you and can’t get it out, what do you do?

The Occupy movement did create spontaneously communities that taught people something: you can be in a supportive community of mutual aid and cooperation and develop your own health system and library and have open space for democratic discussion and participation. Communities like that are really important.

People haven’t always been there for me, but music always has.

A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.

For all the supporters of Tesla over the years, and it’s been several years now and there have been some very tough times, I’d just like to say thank you very much. I deeply appreciate the support, particularly through the darkest times.

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

What you guys want, I’m for.

We are not going to be satisfied by politicians saying ‚we support you‘ and then walking away. We won’t be satisfied until they meet our demands and act. That’s why simply taking a selfie or posting support on Twitter isn’t enough. That’s why we have to keep striking.

You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.

It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.

A lot of people are realizing they had the wool pulled over their eyes by Obama.

I found that with depression, one of the most important things you could realise is that you’re not alone.

I like working. That’s when I’m feeling my best. And the people around me know that. My wife knows that.

If you want to reach the top, don’t run over others. Likely, the only way you’ll reach the top is to be carried there by others.

The Revlon Run/Walk effort to focus on women’s cancer has my wholehearted support and gratitude.

The answer to the problem of inequality is for the people who are fortunate enough to either have been gifted or deserved more to do everything they can to make the communities around them as strong as they possibly can.

Going to a therapist is not something you do when you’re growing up as a street kid in Toronto.

If misery loves company, misery has company enough.

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.