Nobody who has seriously dealt with the men and women in today’s military believes they are a disaster. They are a national treasure of all races, all religions, all walks of life.
A man is more than the sum of all the things he can do.
En Europe, la plupart des batailles que nous avons menées durant les cinquante dernières années étaient destinées à combattre les préjugés contre les juifs. Et maintenant, qu'allons-nous faire? Remplacer un préjugé antisémite par un préjugé anti-islamique?
We are a nation of immigrants. But we are also a nation of laws. It is wrong and ultimately self-defeating for a nation of immigrants to permit the kind of abuse of our immigration laws we have seen in recent years, and we must do more to stop it.
Everytime you cut off somebody else's opportunity you shrink your own horizon
I still believe in a place called Hope.
We need each other. All of us, we need each other. We don't have a person to waste.
There is no real difference between selfish and selfless
But this is America. There is no them; there's only us. One nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty, and justice, for all.
Great rewards will come to those who can live together, learn together, work together, forge new ties that bind together.
A preemptive action today, however well-justified, may come back with unwelcome consequences in the future.
It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is.
I don't care how precise your bombs and your weapons are, when you set them off, innocent people will die.
Criticism is part of the lifeblood of democracy. No one is right all the time. But we should remember that there is a big difference between criticizing a policy or a politician and demonizing the government that guarantees our freedoms and the public servants who enforce our laws.
When we got organized as a country and we wrote a fairly radical Constitution with a radical Bill of Rights, giving a radical amount of individual freedom to Americans, it was assumed that the Americans who had that freedom would use it responsibly.
We all do better when we work together. Our differences do matter, but our common humanity matters more.
from Bill Clinton speech-
People are more impressed by the power of our example rather than the example of our power…
There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.
When our memories outweigh our dreams, it is then that we become old.
If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person. It's how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit.
