Does Quotes

I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.

Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred.

What does Burma have to give the United States? We can give you the opportunity to engage with people who are ready and willing to change a society.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

History tells us that America does best when the private sector is energetic and entrepreneurial and the government is attentive and engaged. Who among us, really, would, looking back, wish to edit out either sphere at the entire expense of the other?

A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.

Everything family does is reflection on the other people.

Your mind always does worse things than people can show in a movie.

You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself.

I don't care who does the electing, so long as I get to do the nominating.

You cannot make a sinner into a saint by killing him. He who does not live as a saint here will never live as a saint hereafter.

A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again.

I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.

I refuse to admit that I am more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitimate.

I just think it is important that you realize , that you're the best in the world. Whether you are a Democrat or Republican or whether you're libertarian or whatever, you are the best. And we should not ever forget that. And when somebody does not do the job, we got to let them go.

A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.

Giving a phenomenon a label does not explain it.

I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?

Succeeding is not really a life experience that does that much good. Failing is a much more sobering and enlightening experience.

If a teacher does not involve himself, his values, his commitments, in the course of discussion, why should the students?

That thought process that somehow other people have to be worse off in order for you to be better off does not work. People get on boats people jump fences to get away from that kind of thought process.

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does.

A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living. Today's military rejects include tomorrow's hard-core unemployed.

I love being a wife and homemaker - because it's my choice. My husband doesn't expect me to do it. I don't mind doing things for him because he does so much for me; we both feel that way so there is no power struggle.

True love cannot be found where it does not exist, nor can it be denied where it does.

What writing does is to reveal.

There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin.