Islam is the only religion that gives dignity to the poor.

We're not a democracy. It's a terrible misunderstandin g and a slander to the idea of democracy to call us that. In reality, we're a plutocracy: a government by the wealthy.

The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.

A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you.

The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy.

People who don't cherish their elderly have forgotten whence they came and whither they go.

There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.

This country of ours has committed the most serious act of aggression in its history by engaging in a war of aggression without a declaration of war by Congress.

Who will protect the public when the police violate the law?

The great and constant need of those who investigate homicide and practice forensic pathology or criminal law is a warm humanism.

Violence is the ultimate human degradation.

Respect other people's feelings. It might mean nothing to you, but it could mean everything to them.

Do not repeat after me words that you do not understand. Do not merely put on a mask of my ideas, for it will be an illusion and you will thereby deceive yourself.

If you aren't willing to look foolish, you're foolish. And that's why so many people have never built an ark, killed a giant, or walked on water.

There's only three things you need to do when you are finished editing your book - Sleep! Sleep! and Sleep!

Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion.

In trouble waters I had to learn how to float

Going to the moon is not a matter of physics but of economics.

I get most of my news updates from electronic and social media.

The most I've smoked in a day was over an ounce, in Germany.

I've had so much good luck happen to me that I can't handle bad luck.