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That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.
I don't believe there's any cloud that hangs over me. I think there's nothing but sunshine hanging over me.
To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.
Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.
Whatever happened to a sense of idealism and embracing an idea that will help people and, in this case, children?
There is...a spiritual hunger in the world today and it cannot be satisfied...by better cars on longer credit terms.
Was I involved in selling drivers licenses to people illegally? Hell no I wasn't. Would I have tolerated it? Hell no.
The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day.
George W. Bush is a leader, and that's what we need in the White House. George Bush is someone you can believe and trust.
We have to be sure [students] understand that racial, national, ethnic, and religious hatred can lead to horrible tragedies.
I am haunted by the demon of error - error in determining guilt and error in determining who among the guilty deserves to die.
While I have served in public office for 30 years, my professional training is as a pharmacist, not a lawyer or an accountant.
As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.
I was hesitant to go around and shake hands, just go up and stick my hand out to strangers. Then I learned to stick my hand out.
A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.
As labor creates the wealth of the country, we demand the passage of such laws as may be necessary to protect it in all its rights.
I think that one of the most fundamental responsibilities is to give testimony in a court of law, to give it honestly and willingly.
It will be helpful in our mutual objective to allow every man in America to look his neighbor in the face and see a man - not a color.
The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.
Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one? A beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is one who notices you.
All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions. All change is the result of a change in the contemporary state of mind.
On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died.
At Texas A&M you learn first to follow, then to develop and practice your leadership skills, and finally you become someone others want to follow.
Because the Illinois death penalty system is arbitrary and capricious - and therefore immoral - I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death.
I have tried to talk about the issues in this campaign... and this has sometimes been a lonely road, because I never meet anybody coming the other way.
Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal.
One of the greatest challenges in collecting child support is that deadbeat dads move from job to job and state to state. it's hard to keep track of them.
Each proposed B-2 stealth bomber costs three times more than it would if every part of the plane were made from solid gold. The cost is $2.3 billion each.
I spend time in the classroom. I think more of them aren't political science than are political science. I particularly like talking to journalism students.
Our children's health and well-being are dependent on our commitment to promoting food access and good eating habits at home, at school and in the community.
Nature is neutral. Man has wrested from nature the power to make the world a desert or make the deserts bloom. There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls.
The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations–great or small–to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century.
And all our troubles, all our immense difficulties, now and in the future, can I say, be solved if we have the will, the courage, the boldness to face them, face them square.
Health care is not a privilege. It's a right. It's a right as fundamental as civil rights. It's a right as fundamental as giving every child a chance to get a public education.
Parents don't need government to raise their kids. That's their job. But government can help them protect their children from influences they may not want their kids exposed to
Parents don't need government to raise their kids. That's their job. But government can help them protect their children from influences they may not want their kids exposed to.
I know each fund has its supporters, and that some will not want to see the surplus go to schools. But, in tough times, you have to set priorities. And our priority is education.
I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal. For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news.
Ask any woman and she'll tell you: health care for women is more expensive than it is for men. In fact, during their reproductive years, women spend 68% more on health care than men do.
Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.
We will meet our challenges head on and we will do it by rejecting the politics of mediocrity and corruption. You voted for change; I intend to deliver it. ... I will govern as a reformer.
The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.
I'm blacker than Barack Obama. I shined shoes. I grew up in a five-room apartment. My father had a little laundromat in a black community not far from where we lived. I saw it all growing up.
The relationship of the toastmaster to speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.
The university is the archive of the Western mind, it's the keeper of the Western culture, ... the guardian of our heritage, the teacher of our teachers, ... the dwelling place of the free mind.
If you don't take enough math classes or science classes or writing intensive classes, you're not going to be prepared to compete in college or the workplace -- no matter what your diploma says.
Freedom of thought and freedom of speech in our great institutions are absolutely necessary for the preservation of our country. The moment either is restricted, liberty begins to wither and die.
I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread.