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Perhaps to some extent we have lost sight of the fact that LSD can be very, very helpful in our society if used properly.
If I get to be president, what can I do anyway? With Congress and the press, what chance do I have to make basic changes?
I do believe the most important thing I can do now is to help young people understand the past and prepare for the future.
Every human being is entitled to courtesy and consideration. Constructive criticism is not only to be expected but sought.
A lot of senators are so worried about convention and how they look that they wouldn't let their hair down if they had any.
We are becoming so accustomed to millions and billions of dollars that 'thousands' has almost passed out of the dictionary.
I'm in love with one woman. I've been in love with one woman for 31 years. She is the finest human being I have ever known.
Punishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force.
I believe that as long as a single man may try, any unjustifiable barrier against his efforts is a barrier against mankind.
In America, freedom and justice have always come from the ballot box, the jury box, and when that fails, the cartridge box.
We still have tremendous work ahead of us to ensure that women have equal opportunities in the workplace and in our society.
While free markets tend to democratize a society, unfettered capitalism leads invariably to corporate control of government.
The enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and abiding practice of any western society.
I'm a former governor, and so I was the chief executive, and when the legislature wasn't in session, I was running the state.
We need a foreign policy that is both tough... and smart. The good news? That is the historic legacy of the Democratic Party.
The fact that women are paid 73 cents on the dollar for work equivalent to work being done by men is unacceptable in America.
GNP measures neither our courage, our wisdom neither our compassion. It measures everything except what makes life worthwhile
My basic rule is to speak slowly and simply so that my audience has an opportunity to follow and think about what I am saying.
You knew that what is given or granted can be taken away, that what is begged can be refused; but that what is earned is kept.
Martin Luther King dedicated his life to love and to justice between fellow human beings. He died in the cause of that effort.
America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity - the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
I love working for the people of Indiana. I love helping our citizens make the most of their lives, but I do not love Congress.
Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incompetents in asylums, and those in cemeteries.
I run because I am convinced that this country is on a perilous course and I have such strong feelings about what must be done.
The theoretical postulate of all diplomatic discussion between nations is the assumed willingness of every nation to do justice.
Providence has given the United States the duty of extending Christian civilization. We come as ministering angels, not despots.
Hand in hand with freedom of speech goes the power to be heard, to share in the decisions of government which shape men's lives.
Those who cannot afford to sue currently have no protection of their property rights if they come in conflict with a regulation.
When the playing is over, one can sense that one's youth has been spent playing a game, and now both the game and youth are gone.
I've never allowed my political life, or my life as a basketball player, to define the totality of my humanity or my personality.
Secretary of War Stanton used to get out of patience with Lincoln because he was all the time pardoning men who ought to be shot.
I'm not sure I had a political career for the future anyway. I'm not sure that politics was what I wanted to spend my life doing.
What has violence ever accomplished? What has it ever created? No martyr's cause has ever been stilled by an assassin's bullet...
Tis not, 'my country right or wrong'; tis, 'my country, that which is right to be kept right, that which is wrong to be set right'
We need leaders who appeal to us to think about something other than narrow self-interest but instead focus upon the greater good.
The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.
The mark of a successful organization isn't whether or not it has problems, its whether it has the same problems it had last year.
I like a lot of my Republican colleagues, starting with my friend from Indiana, Senator Lugar. We've had an excellent relationship.
From the first moment of independence, the United States has been dedicated to innovation as a way of government and a way of life.
The day the army of Virginia allows a negro regiment to enter their lines as soldiers they will be degraded, ruined, and disgraced.
This is the way federal land management should work. Cooperation, not confrontation, should be the hallmark of conservation efforts.
As an American, I want to see our nation recapture the strength and unity it once had when we fought the enemy instead of ourselves.
Look, I have no qualms about having played basketball. The game has done so much for me. Look at the places I've been, for one thing.
Every once in a while, an election comes along, and who you are and what you believe gets subsumed in a larger tide. It just happens.
Companies that are publicly held have a fiduciary duty to their shareholders to try to maximize their profits within ethical reasons.
The perception is that baseball's players' union is protecting players to use steroids and other illegal performance-enhancing drugs.
Positioning the brand and regaining trust are all smart things for us to do and those are the litmus tests for any decisions we make.
Greatness is not manifested by unlimited pragmatism, which places such a high premium on the end justifying any means and any methods
It is the right of government to protect the weak; it is the right of the weak to find in their courts fair treatment before the law.
Saddam Hussein is not the only deranged dictator who is willing to deprive his people in order to acquire weapons of mass destruction.