We need citizens who are less concerned about what their government can do for them, and more concerned about what they can do for the nation.

I am not fit for this office and should never have been here.

Every student has the ability to be a successful learner.

Treat your friend as if he will one day be your enemy, and your enemy as if he will one day be your friend

Less government in business and more business in government.

America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.

It is my conviction that the fundamental trouble with the people of the United States is that they have gotten too far away from Almighty God.

I don't know much about Americanism, but it's a damn good word with which to carry an election.

I knew that this job would be too much for me.

The black man should seek to be, and he should be encouraged to be, the best possible black man and not the best possible imitation of a white man.

There's good in everybody. Boost. Don't knock.

Neither of us asked to be born descendants, yet I’d be rewarded with his death, and we couldn’t prevent that. No one could. (Eric)

The problem with the war in Iraq is not so much the intelligence as the stupidity.

Regardless of what is being discussed . . . the issue is never more important than the quality of the interaction.

There is a formal poetry perfect only in form?the number of syllables, the designated and required stresses of accent, the rhymes if wantedthey come off with the skill of a solved crossword puzzle.

In Heaven you're going to be the same make, but a new model!

I hope never to see the day that I cannot admit having made a mistake.

The European Commission says that people who are working the country can play in the national team. Perhaps Didier Drogba can play for England after five years. We have to protect against that.

Abolish the Loyal League and the Ku Klux Klan; let us come together and stand together.

A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song in the other

It's redundant to die in Los Angeles.