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

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.

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

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.

A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.

There's no rule that says attraction warrents trust. If that were the case, then more wedded couple would be happier.

Self-governing cultures both inspire alignment and eject elements that don't fit in.

One moment the world is as it is. The next, it is something entirely different. Something it has never been before.

We can have technology, prosperity, nice homes and cars, but at the same time we must be conscious of what we are dumping into the water, the air and our food.

In our relations with the people around us, we forgive them more readily for what they do, which they can help, than for what they are, which they cannot help.

Aesthetic life is not something sophisticated - that's a humanistic lie. Aesthetic life is as integral to being human as building sandcastles on the beach and giving your children names.

The paradox of race in America is that our common destiny is more pronounced and imperiled precisely when our divisions are deeper.

Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.

What's interesting about the Taliban, is they're more afraid of educating girls than they are of drones. One educated girl is more scary to the Taliban than a drone.