It is often just as important to be perceived as something as actually to be that something and, as a matter of fact, a candidate need not be anything ideologically at all.

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.

So unsirious work... I behave nice because I want people to behave in the same way with me.

Yugoslavia is a multinational community and it can survive only under the conditions of full equality for all nations that live in it.

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

In my circle of friends, I've always been loud and funny and talkative. But as soon as I step out of that circle, I get very quiet and introspective. I don't want the spotlight on me.

The writing of the script is a continual process. There's the first draft and then many, many re-writes here and there.

There are places on earth where we can catch a glimpse of heaven.

Lord, give me Scotland or I die!

To be healthy and happy, a person must live a life that includes a good variety of activities.

I'd rather go for Scorsese and De Niro. I just think he was so much better.