That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.

And when a woman’s will is as strong as the man’s who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.

I do not believe that government should be in the business of telling women what they should do with their bodies.

Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today’s world do not have.

We must have government that builds stamina into communities and men. That makes men instead of mendicants.

The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free.

During bad circumstances, which is the human inheritance, you must decide not to be reduced. You have your humanity, and you must not allow anything to reduce that. We are obliged to know we are global citizens. Disasters remind us we are world citizens, whether we like it or not.

What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?

I want to be the white man’s brother, not his brother-in-law.

Unity can only be manifested by the Binary. Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two.

I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.

The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don’t have to waste your time voting.

We’re not a fragile people. We’re not a frightful people. Our power doesn’t come from some self-declared savior promising that he alone can restore order as long as we do things his way. We don’t look to be ruled.

There are people in the world who have skills and strength and talent that I will never have. Never. These notions that you can ‚be whatever you want to be as long as you want it bad enough‘ are not true. They are fairy tales.

God is not upset that Gandhi was not a Christian, because God is not a Christian! All of God’s children and their different faiths help us to realize the immensity of God.

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

There’s no reason for the establishment to fear me. But it has every right to fear the people collectively – I am one with the people.

People forget… that we structured it so that the government, or the people, would be repaid with a really good rate of return. And as it turns out, that aspect of TARP, that’s what happened.

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.

God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there’s no question about it.

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

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.

All religions and all communities have the same rights, and it is my responsibility to ensure their complete and total protection. My government will not tolerate or accept any discrimination based on caste, creed and religion.

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.

Any man or institution that tries to rob me of my dignity will lose.

I know how to swim through backlash. I can tread water through backlash… If anything, that’s all giving me power.

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.

Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.

I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.

Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.

Exercise is labor without weariness.

I think when the president of the United States calls for military action, he should do it for a united people, especially when the methods have been so cruel, so explicitly directed at Americans.

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.

You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

Withdrawal of American troops must be a unilateral act, as the invasion of Vietnam by the American government was a unilateral act in the first place.

If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.

If you have to stand and fight, you train yourself so that you’re able to do it.

Do all children have some inherent right to live in America if they have done nothing wrong? If not, then why should the children of illegal immigrants have such a right?

Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.

If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.

Democracy is worth dying for, because it’s the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.

I loved being Secretary of State, that’s probably evident to everyone who watched me.

About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation.

It’s nice to say let’s be bipartisan. But we’re a partisan nation. We were raised as a partisan nation.

If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only one God, and there are many paths to him.

The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.

Exceeds man’s might: that dwells with the gods above.

When you get to a place where you understand that love and belonging, your worthiness, is a birthright and not something you have to earn, anything is possible.

One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.

In hip-hop, there’s not a lot of love. There’s not a lot of love being spread. It’s always like ‚I’m stuntin‘ on you raps, or I’m better than you raps.‘ It’s not a lot of ‚Yo man, I idolize you raps.‘

You can’t choose up sides on a round world.

I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.

You would have a huge statelessness problem if you don’t consider a child born abroad a U.S. citizen.

If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists – to protect them and to promote their common welfare – all else is lost.

You need to understand, if you take out a government, take out a regime, guess who becomes the government and regime and is responsible for the country? You are. So if you break it, you own it.