I have family in Tanzania. I can't even explain the joy of riding through the Tanzania national park and seeing giraffes run across the road and elephants over in a pond and baboons running.

The truth of the matter is the tone is toxic here in Washington, and we have been exporting it around the country.

Hope fills the holes of my frustration in my heart.

There is more power in unity than division.

Hope is the motivation that empowers the unemployed, enabling them to get out of bed every single morning with unbounded enthusiasm as they look for work.

We've gotten to the point now where Republicans and Democrats have nothing in common besides being members of the 'caustic caucus,' and we can't get anything done.

Social Security is a covenant that should not be broken.

Let's do more than say the 'Pledge of Allegiance.' Let us live it!

[Raul Castro] is one of the most amazing human beings I've ever met.

Congress is unable to do the work of the American people because too many politicians believe that compromise means capitulation.

This deal is a sugar-coated satan sandwich. If you lift the bun, you will not like what you see.

You can't be in my world...You live in this one.

I loved everything about her, and I didn't care how dark she got. If anything it was what I loved the most, the veil of pain that fell across her face most of the day, and all of the night.

God allows us, through thoughts, ideas, words and revelations, to imagine things in ourconscious mind that He has already created in the invisible spirit realm.

When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.

I resolved to move just a little bit more slowly through the world, to look around myself with greater care, and to try to remain conscious of all that was going on around me at all times.

If you respect the art and you have some talent about you, I'm on your team.

I'm an amateur photographer, apart from being a professional one, and I think maybe my amateur pictures are the better ones.

People think that I'm a really outgoing person because of how I am on stage. But I'm not. I'm really shy.

Waterboarding is how we baptize terrorists.

The bond between true lovers is as close as we come to what endures forever.