Our Quotes

Governments would rather spend their money on another bomber than education, and why do we fear black men when every bit of suffering in our lives has a Caucasian face attached to it?

The only difference between the Coyotes and 'Days of Our Lives' is that nobody has been shot on our team yet.

We ought to be as earnest and frequent in our prayers of thanksgiving when the cupboard is full as we would be in our prayers of supplication if the cupboards were bare.

There can be no better measure of our governance than the way we treat our children, and no greater failing on our part than to allow them to be subjected to violence, abuse or exploitation.

In every interview I have ever read or seen or taken part in, the final question in our future-oriented society is always, What next?

The laws of war right now say that we can respond when our country is threatened. That is what international law says.

It's an essential fight librarians are making, an age-old fight; yours is a battle for civilization. It's a fight for our country's founding values.

Mr. Speaker, we have reached a point in history where some have forgotten that it is the family, not the government, that is the fundamental building block of our society.

I am committed to protecting our country against the threat of terrorism.

Our choice is between cynicism and hope.

There couldn't have been a better Hollywood ending for us. It's beyond baseball. It's rooting for your family.

I don't want to make a depressing movie. I want it to allow us to ask some questions and stay asking those questions. How predetermined are our lives? It's something I don't have the answer to.

I've always loved hip-hop, since I was a kid, that's the music that I loved. I think everyone of our generation kind of fantasized about hip-hop in some ways.

I think it's important to watch out for our environment and to be careful.

The promise of education reform can never be fulfilled without adequate funding, and by shortchanging our schools, President Bush is breaking his promise to our children.

There is enough Christianity in our country's history to make it a significant component of our heritage and identity.

There's a romance to danger. There's a romance to drinking, to drugs, to petty crime and to heartbreak and loneliness. All of those things can be used to make the story of our lives better.

We are going to learn more by what we see than by what we hear. Our actions speak so loudly that we don't have to say a word.. Words only account for about seven percent of our communication.

Increasingly, search is our mechanism for how we understand ourselves, our world, and our place within it.

We have been endowed with the capacity and the power to create desirable pictures within and to find them automatically in the outer world of our environment.

Since the conception of our country, America has held that parents, not schools, teachers, and certainly not courts, hold the primary responsibility of educating their children.

This war is being played in the realm of public opinion and has dire consequences for our soldiers in Iraq, the future of our country, and freedom around the world.

If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more new ideas for more wise men reading more good books in more public libraries.

In giving rights to others which belong to them, we give rights to ourselves and to our country

Now is the time...for this nation to take a clearly leading role in space achievement, which in many ways may hold the key to our future on Earth.

We're in a battle for our lives for things that really matter to us. There's a shell game going on like I've never seen before.

Social Security's future has gotten worse, and each year we delay reform adds to the cost we are pushing off onto our children.

To send our troops, our ships, our planes to this war is ridiculous.

Democrats with a good understanding of the need for strong energy policy in our country, especially in these difficult economic times, recognized the importance of the Keystone XL pipeline.

If our salmon are not healthy, then our watersheds are not healthy-and if our watersheds our not healthy, then we have truly squandered our heritage and mortgaged our future.

Dame Edna is that rarest sighting in our time of the absolute comic, an inspired personification of caprice whose comedy answered the primal call to take the audience for a tumble.

I am proud to be an American, and proud that such beliefs are at the core of our country and its citizens.

One of the great illusions of our time is that hurrying will buy us more time.

I don't know that I believe in the supernatural, but I do believe in miracles, and our time together was filled with the events of magical unlikelihood.

To yield reverence to another, to hold ourselves and our lives at his disposal, is not slavery; often, it is the noblest state in which a man can live in this world.

God intends... our care of Creation to reflect our love for the Creator.

There is a battle to be waged over what kind of country we are going to leave our children and grandchildren and that battle is happening now in Washington, not two years from now.

The important things to me are your faith, your family and your friends. If you have that, you have everything.

We're constantly waking up to what we're about, what we're really doing in our lives. And the fact is, that's painful. But there's no possibility of freedom without this pain.

The biggest problem facing our world today is a lack of hope and a lack of meaning. [It's] basically just a postmodern world in which there is no right or wrong, no better or worse.

The real meditation practice is how we live our lives from moment to moment to moment.

Living in a chronic state of unawareness can cause us to miss much of what is most beautiful and meaningful in our lives.

Real leadership means tackling tough problems ourselves and not leaving them to our children.

Our love can't be measured. It just is.

All around the world there are 230 countries, and among those people I can speak 5 languages. Nevertheless, I can't find the exact word to define our relationship.

If you look at our world, it's a world of critique.

There are, above all, times in which the human reality, always mobile, accelerates, and bursts into vertiginous speeds. Our time is such a one, for it is made of descent and fall.

Why should we stunt our ambitions and impoverish our lives in order to be insulted and looked down upon in our old age?

Love is the greatest of all the commandments-all others hang upon it. It is our focus as followers of the living Christ. It is the one trait that, if developed, will most improve our lives.

Parents look at me like I'm somebody pretty important, and say, We were raised on your characters, and now we're enjoying them all over again with our children.