There are people who kind of gravitate towards running politics based on new ideas and issues, and that was what the secret was for Clinton.

Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.

But I think I can sincerely declare that I cheerfully submit myself to every odious name for conscience’ sake; and from my soul I despise all those whose guilt, malice, or folly has made them...

I would not have a woman go to Congress merely because she is a woman.

On January 10, 1963, I was sworn in as a lawyer, so next January 10 I will have practiced law for 40 years, and I’ve loved every minute of it.

In our view, successful reform is not an event. It is a sustainable process that will build on its own successes – a virtuous cycle of change.

My dear sister, I hope, when God Almighty in his righteous providence shall take me out of time into eternity, that it will be by a flash of lightning.

If that’s your definition of the Clinton faction, then I think that that seems to be in ascendancy. That might include a guy like John Edwards, who’s just starting this new center in Chapel Hill...

Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.

I have two delightful sons, who I love dearly.

It is hard for people outside the White House to understand the constant daily problems and issues that come up that require the president’s attention, but he can not let himself get too personally involved.

Ultimately I think what people care about, particularly on an issue like Social Security, is not really what’s right and what’s left but what’s right and what’s wrong.

There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.

Every man may reign secure in his petty tyranny, and spread terror and desolation around him, until the trump of the Archangel shall excite different emotions in his soul.

If the feminist program goes to pieces on the arrival of the first baby, it’s false and useless.

George W. Bush is very vulnerable but not if you campaign the way the major candidates – except for Dean and Kucinich – are campaigning.

The Arab World is writing a new future; the pen is in our own hands.

Now, one of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one’s house.

First and foremost, when I think of him – I’m prejudiced; I worked for the guy for six and a half years – when I think of him, I think of him first and foremost...

My creed is that: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so.

The Emmy will have no effect on me, from the standpoint that you’ve still got to wash your bowl after breakfast.

It was frightening because it was the first time I had gotten a sense of how serious the problem was. It became clear from his notes that he felt the president himself was involved.

I began by telling the president that there was a cancer growing on the presidency and that if the cancer was not removed the president himself would be killed by it.

We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.

Every one with this writ may be a tyrant; if this commission be legal, a tyrant in a legal manner, also, may control, imprison, or murder any one within the realm.

It is not so much that women have a different point of view in politics as that they give a different emphasis. And this is vastly important, for politics is so largely a matter of...

Addiction should never be treated as a crime. It has to be treated as a health problem. We do not send alcoholics to jail in this country. Over 500,000 people are in our jails who...

Together, we can create a world in which peace is real; in which every human being can thrive; in which all share the promise of our century. I believe we can succeed.

Taxation without representation is tyranny.

I think if you look at yesterday’s New York Times poll, particularly when you judge Democrats in Congress versus the Republicans in Congress, people put a little more faith, or even a little more than...

Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.

Am I 53 or 54? I think I’m 54. I was born in 1941. So this year I’ll be 55.

Morgan, Lewis is a very large firm now, but it was not quite as big then. It was exciting for an associate in those days, because you got good and varied assignments and terrific training.

Bill Rehnquist makes Barry Goldwater look like a liberal.

In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.

I do not say that, when brought to the test, I shall be invincible.

Until women learn to want economic independence, and until they work out a way to get this independence without denying themselves the joys of love and motherhood, it seems to me feminism has no roots.

This (George W. Bush’s) administration is not sympathetic to corporations, it is indentured to corporations.

When I talk to people in need, they tell me they want to hope; they are eager for opportunity; they are ready for better days. And I can tell you that every time their hopes...

The only principles of public conduct that are worthy of a gentleman or a man are to sacrifice estate, ease, health, and applause, and even life, to the sacred calls of his country.

I think that people have to have to have a sense of what ideas are one the progressive side, the Democratic side in order ultimately to be effective in the political world.

Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows.

I believe the director’s primary role is to create an atmosphere where his company can be created.

One regret I have is that I did not learn more about what was happening very early, so that I could have tried to stop people from engaging in illegal activities.

I understand about this idea of terror and what it means to Americans and this idea that we can’t just walk around free like we did; life has changed.

If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane.

The glory of each generation is to make its own precedents.

I have accordingly considered it, and now appear not only in obedience to your order, but likewise in behalf of the inhabitants of this town, who have presented another petition, and out of regard to...

I would say that without any doubt he’s the killer – the law says beyond a reasonable doubt and to a moral certainty which I – there’s no question that he was the killer of...

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