A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, "Huh. It works. It makes sense.
A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.
A president who breaks the law is a threat to the very structure of our government.
A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed.
All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field.
All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They.
America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.
As an adolescent I was convinced that France would have to go through gigantic trials, that the interest of life consisted in one day rendering her some signal service and that I would have the occasion to do so.
As president, I will bring all the parties and stakeholders together. I am going to come up with a solution that respects the environment and does not cause an upheaval in the economy.
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
Diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means.
Dropping those atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a war crime.
During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.
Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.
For there is one thing we must never forget… the majority can never replace the man. And no more than a hundred empty heads make one wise man will an heroic decision arise from a hundred cowards.
