When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

Those of us who have been privileged to receive education, skills, and experiences and even power must be role models for the next generation of leadership.

I don't think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right.

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and fearful master.

A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.

Opportunities multiply as they are seized.

We have the means and the capacity to deal with our problems, if only we can find the political will.

I'm not a member of any organized party, I'm a Democrat.

I fight on. I fight to win.

We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.

Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.

Appearances matter and remember to smile.

You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker

Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

Democracy is...the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

The more you read about politics, the more you got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.

Quitting is leading too.