I believe that we should do anything we can to minimize abortion and not to encourage it.

The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens.

What are the things that you can't see that are important? I would say justice, truth, humility, service, compassion, love...They're the guiding lights of a life.

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.

We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.

All I want is the same thing you want. To have a nation with a government that is as good and honest and decent and competent and compassionate and as filled with love as are the American people.

We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.

The test of a government is not how popular it is with the powerful and privileged few but how honestly and fairly it deals with the many who must depend on it.

America has no functioning democracy at this moment.

If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.

It is difficult for the common good to prevail against the intense concentration of those who have a special interest, especially if the decisions are made behind locked doors.

I play with the fire of my own truth, " she told me, "I will burn for the things I love.

You've got to find yourself first. Everything else'll follow.

The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don't have to explain things with words.

I think it's been the topic of conversation for every one... If the U.S. is hit again, how are we going to handle it? Our troops are all over the place.

There is no escaping, at times, the gloomy suspicion that fiddling with pens and ink is, after all, no fit employment for a grown man.

The first treasure California began to surrender after the Gold Rush as the oldest: her land.

Before you reach for the saltshaker, consider swapping your snacks for a healthier option.

I paint the way someone bites his fingernails; for me, painting is a bad habit because I don't know nor can I do anything else.

Don't forget to bring that little blonde haired girl along. You know the one, love to watch her jump up and down.

The idea of content in art is today merely a hindrance, a nuisance, a subtle or not so subtle philistinism.