Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West. The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.

Hate crime is not new in the United States.

I’ve never had a divorce, but I’ve seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so I try to write for the people that can’t write about it. I take on their sorrow, so I’m able to kind of express it, or their joy.

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.

Those 62 million girls who are not being educated around the world impact my life in Washington, D.C., in the United States of America. Because if we aren’t empowering and providing the skills and the resources to half of our population, then we’re not realizing our full potential as a society, as mankind.

The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.

So while an incredible amount of progress has been made, on this fifth anniversary, I wanted to come here and tell the people of this city directly: My administration is going to stand with you – and fight alongside you – until the job is done. Until New Orleans is all the way back, all the way.

My songs are like my children – I expect them to support me when I’m old.

The notion that we have even one single veteran living on the streets should be just considered a travesty to all of us.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

‚Suffering should not make us bitter people,‘ my mother once said, ‚it should make us better comforters.‘ Young people need to hear this from those who have walked before them, because someday they’ll be walking those same steps, but there may not be anyone following behind.

We have the oldest written constitution still in force in the world, and it starts out with three words, ‚We, the people.‘

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

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

Following the missile crisis, detente started to gain ground between the United States and the Soviet Union, so the international political climate improved after that.

If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don’t ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.

The fame isn’t important to me. It’s a blessing to have. Having so many people that support me, that love me and listen to my music, is beautiful.

I’m going to try to unite all Americans.

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

Egypt is the second-largest recipient over a long period of U.S. military and economic aid. Israel is first.

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

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

If I hadn’t been President of the United States, I probably would have ended up a piano player in a bawdy house.

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.

In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.

War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.

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

I think war is so incredibly backward, and I don’t think it’s intelligent, and it’s not sane. So why would you want to support it?

We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain – that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom – and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

While the crash only took place six months ago, I am convinced we have now passed the worst, and with continued unity of effort, we shall rapidly recover. There is one certainty of the future of a people of the resources, intelligence and character of the people of the United States – that is, prosperity.

My mami and papi love my music. They’re always listening to the radio waiting for one of my songs to come on. And when it does, they turn up the volume – and turn it back down when it’s over.

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

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.

Every citizen has the real right to receive general education and professional training at no cost, something that the United States has not been able to ensure for all its inhabitants.

The United States has to move very fast to even stand still.

My whole family have all been through a difficult time. My focus is my children, our children.

We care for each other and care about our family, and we are both working towards the same goal.

I admire Ralph Nader and Denis Kucinich very much, and insofar as they bring up issues and carry out an educational and organisational function – that’s important, and fine, and I support it.

Well look, I mean, I think that prayer and holy water, and things like that are all fine. They don’t do any good, but they don’t necessarily do any harm. It’s touching to be thought of in that way. It makes up for those who tell me that I’ve got my just desserts.

I want to thank my Eritrean fans for feeling connected to me and for supporting me. I feel extremely grateful.

Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can you avoid such a thing. In the center of an empire, you can think of your experience as universal. Outside the empire or on the fringes of the empire, you cannot.

The great thing about the United States and the historically magnetic effect it has had on a lot of people like me is its generosity, to put it simply.

When you’re in prison, you want to know that you were thought about.

Fidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he stood up to the United States.

When the people you love are gone, you’re alone.

When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill.

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

Greece has been, in many ways, a partially dysfunctional society. For example, the wealthy barely pay taxes… to an extent, that’s true elsewhere, including the United States, but it’s been pretty extreme in Greece.

I’m no longer just a candidate. I’m the President. I know what it means to send young Americans into battle, for I have held in my arms the mothers and fathers of those who didn’t return. I’ve shared the pain of families who’ve lost their homes, and the frustration of workers who’ve lost their jobs.

When younger writers and poets, musicians and painters are weakened by a stemming of funds, they come to me saddened, not as full of dreams and excitement and ideas. I am then weakened and diminished, and made less rich.

I’m substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the White House and Congress are at odds over what the future direction should be. They’re sort of playing a game and NASA is the shuttlecock that they’re hitting back and forth.

For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.

I don’t keep people around me that aren’t family. You don’t get to stay. Unless you’re eating at the table with us, you’re not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.

Government does not create wealth. The major role for the government is to create an environment where people take risks to expand the job rate in the United States.

I’ve never dropped anyone I believed in.

I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and ocean in the world, were united to support me in the task to which I have now been dedicated with such solemnity.

I am the most unselfish chef in Britain today.

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to the American people: Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible.

Women may fall when there’s no strength in men.

I felt I had to solve everyone’s problems.