The American people have been kicked in the teeth by unfair trade for decades.

The number one goal of teachers should be to help students learn how to learn.

I admire the ambition of the project, and the generosity of many of the lines.

Without strong visionary leadership, no strategy will be executed effectively.

The religious opponents of Christian conservatives are presented as moderates.

Palestinian Arabs [are] people who breed and bleed and advertise their misery.

Astronomers ought to be able to ask fundamental questions without accelerators

Yes, I am a quantum mechanic! Those darn quantum computers break all the time.

Israel has a sizeable nuclear arsenal and could retaliate if it were attacked.

My style of leadership is to lead with the lightest touch that I possibly can.

People wouldn’t have become who we are today if we hadn’t coevolved with dogs.

Animals do have emotion. But fear tends to be one of the most primal emotions.

Sometimes you have to go outside your field of study to find the right people.

My grandfather was an engineer who invented the automatic pilot for airplanes.

The purpose of government is for those who run it to plunder those who do not.

A drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.

Being a giver is not good for a 100-yard dash, but it’s valuable in a marathon.

Good guys are most likely to finish last, but also most likely to finish first.

The moral law is simply the way we think our own freedom as self-determination.

To not have your suffering recognized is an almost unbearable form of violence.

Extremely disappointed that corruption may have reached such a level in Mexico.

You can’t believe something just because someone else desperately wants you to.

I suffer from a genetic flaw, which is that my mother was a hopeless Pollyanna.

It is always a good time when I visit the 'Melissa Harris Perry Show' on MSNBC.

Every duty which is bidden to wait returns with seven fresh duties at its back.

"Life is unfair" "The goalposts will move" and above all: "other people matter"

The current economic system is fundamentally flawed and inevitably destructive.

Lawyers like to leave no stone unturned, provided they can charge by the stone.

No cause, no God, no abstract idea can justify the mass slaughter of innocents.

A destruction, an annihilation that only man can provoke, only man can prevent.

If you read any of my books, they tend to have a strong historical perspective.

I don't think I have the stamina anymore and I certainly don't have the health.

I believe in the necessity for struggle by people at the bottom of any society.

I remember my father explaining, "A capitalist system is a dog-eat-dog system."

If you don't have a way to speak to ordinary Americans, you're not in the game.

There are few scientists in the world with the resources I have at my disposal.

You are able to do many things. But be sure you find the one thing you must do.

You subtract Christianity from Huston Smith, and there is no Huston Smith left.

Profit maximization is the murderous strategy of global corporation hierarchies

In Asian languages, the word for mind and the word for heart are the same word.

I don't want people following Jon Kabat-Zinn. I want them following themselves.

Science to me is sufficiently weird and interesting, and stranger than fiction.

My students are noticed by the people I respect from the quality of their work.

What is good work? You just know it when you see it. You just can't explain it.

At the heart of the fractured soul of America is the frightening chasm of race.

Never before, I suspect, have so many people been so rich to so little purpose.

I believe that consciousness is the way information feels when being processed.

Good leaders need a positive agenda, not just an agenda of dealing with crisis.

A target should go with every goal. A target is the value that defines success.

God writes the story of our lives with the pen strokes of our own free choices.

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