Great nations don't have to remind others of their greatness. They merely have to be great.

I've never been a fan of presidents who place blame on their predecessors or who accept credit for events that couldn't have been engineered so soon in their tenure.

For justice to have any meaning, it must also mean that no innocent person should ever be executed.

It is entirely possible that Limbaugh himself never needed contraception in college, but virtue in the absence of opportunity is hardly a moral triumph.

If you don't like tomato soup, you don't buy tomato soup.

It's impossible to expect polite behavior from people who've never witnessed it.

Allow me to introduce myself. I am a traitor and an idiot. Also, my mother should have aborted me and left me in a dumpster, but since she didn't, I should 'off' myself.

People in positions of power and privilege have a duty to perform at a higher level. If not them, then who?

But principles defended at the expense of pragmatic application is the business of priests.

Freedom is a messy affair, and sometimes people get their feelings hurt but we think the trade-off is worth the aggravation.

We must understand what the word believe implies. It means “commit” and “surrender.

It was clear that most of my insecurities originated from my need to have things be “perfect.” I wasn’t sure what bothered me more

I think it's like everything else; one shouldn't dig too deeply. It's silly to say that with a journalist, but sometimes there is not a truth to be found.

The Democratic Party was always there on crime, but in the past we let the ideologues on the left dominate. The Republicans may still let the ideologues on the right dominate.

I believe in luck and fate and I believe in karma, that the energy you put out in the world comes back to meet you.

If the supply of virtue is insufficient in a free society like America, it is almost nonexistent in an unfree society like Iran's. The reason is that coerced virtues are not virtues at all.

There ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them. - Mark Twain, author Making the team is one thing, becoming a team is another.

She can never tell him what she started to say: that we come to love those who save us. For although Anna does believe this is true, the word that stuck in her throat was not save but shame.

Again, it is belief without evidence. In the case of Stalinism, people actually distorted science, because it was for the good of the Communist Party.

I can't think of anything I'd rather do less than have to continuously share details of my everyday life.