The ultimate end of redemption is that we worship God with our whole being and in the whole company of the redeemed.
The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress.
Democracy is the best revenge.
We learned at an early age that it was men's interpretation of our religion that restricted women's opportunities, not our religion itself. Islam in fact had been quite progressive toward women from its inception.
No, I am not pregnant. I am fat. And, as the Prime Minister, its my right to be fat if I want to.
America's greatest contribution to the world is its concept of democracy, its concept of freedom, freedom of action, freedom of speech, and freedom of thought.
Every dictator uses religion as a prop to keep himself in power.
The lover is moved by the thing loved, as the sense is by that which perceives, and it unites with it and they become one and the same thing. . . when the lover is united with the beloved it finds rest there; when the burden is laid down there it finds rest.
If those who wrote and ratified the 14th Amendment had imagined laws restricting immigration - and had anticipated huge waves of illegal immigration - is it reasonable to presume they would have wanted to provide the reward of citizenship to the children of the violators of those laws? Surely not.
Practically every profession has a really political environment. I think the world has become more competitive. There are so many people in every place competing for small slices of success and power. It's a heated atmosphere and whenever you have competition, you're going to have more politics and manipulation.
And while the ice was melting to form a flood in which I threatened to drown I awoke one afternoon to find that my first northern winter had set.