To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.

I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood.

Remember that the revolution is what is important, and each one of us, alone, is worth nothing.

I have the people behind me and the people are my strength.

For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.

Our diplomacy and development budget is not just about reducing spending and finding efficiencies. We need a frank conversation about what we stand for as that ‚shining city on a hill.‘ And that conversation begins by acknowledging that we can’t do it on the cheap.

Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee… I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now.

A president has an inescapable responsibility to provide direction: What are we trying to achieve? What are we trying to prevent? Why? To do that, he has to both analyze and reflect.

It is hard to be an individual in Japan.

He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.

For everything I do, I think about a 6-year-old girl and her mom that I saw at my concert last night. I think about what those two individuals would think if I were at a club last night. I never want to be arrested, and I never want to get a DUI, those are my moral values.

I see Americans of every party, every background, every faith who believe that we are stronger together: black, white, Latino, Asian, Native American; young, old; gay, straight; men, women, folks with disabilities, all pledging allegiance under the same proud flag to this big, bold country that we love. That’s what I see. That’s the America I know!

Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.

I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Before I lost my voice, it was slurred, so only those close to me could understand, but with the computer voice, I found I could give popular lectures. I enjoy communicating science. It is important that the public understands basic science, if they are not to leave vital decisions to others.

Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty.

Even if you’re happy with the life you’ve chosen, you’re still curious about the other options.

The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.

I believe that the primary role of the government is to protect people and not run their lives. You used to be able to believe that in the Democratic Party.

Those who cry out that the government should ‚do something‘ never even ask for data on what has actually happened when the government did something, compared to what actually happened when the government did nothing.

My authoritarian and quick manner of making decisions led me to have serious problems and to be accused of being ultraconservative. I have never been a right-winger. It was my authoritarian way of making decisions that created problems.

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

There’s no political point worth my son’s life.

The woman that deliberates is lost.

Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.

If it wasn’t for the fun and money, I really don’t know why I’d bother.

Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.

Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.

If you’re sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign.

The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good.

I can’t very well be teaching one way and living my life another way. What I do in life must be consistent with the things I say. And the same goes for you.

Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules.

Being flooded with information doesn’t mean we have the right information or that we’re in touch with the right people.

We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.

We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.

Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is harmony in the house; when there is harmony in the house, there is order in the nation; when there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness, not by each other’s misery.

There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.

I don’t have a magic formula for prioritizing the world’s problems.

Let the people on both sides keep their self-possession, and just as other clouds have cleared away in due time, so will this, and this great nation shall continue to prosper as before.

We just seem to have lost all our morals and principles and values these days.

I don’t ever make moves under pressure.

If someone lies, well, you had a choice to trust that person or not. I think the way my father raised me, well, he trusted everybody. And that worked for him.

Wise men don’t need advice. Fools won’t take it.

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

I make decisions all day, so it’s nice for a woman like me to go to dinner and have the man take the menu and say, ‚Let me order.‘ Other women would be offended by that, but I’m like, ‚Good. Because I can’t make one more decision today.‘ I want someone to rub my feet without being asked.

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

You don’t see too many atheists on the deathbed. They all start cramming then.

I don’t think Romney is wacky at all, but religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things, believe and affirm crazy things. Left on his own, Romney would never have said something like the Garden Of Eden was in Missouri, and will be again.

No matter the nationality, no matter the religion, no matter the ethnic background, America brings out the best in people.

The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That’s the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!

Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.

Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.

In my line of work, the enemy gets a vote.