Are we going to lead the world with strength and in accordance with our values? That's what I intend to do.
We cannot let our respect for the FBI blind us from the fact the FBI has sometimes come up short of our expectations.
There is a good reason they call these ceremonies 'commencement exercises'. Graduation is not the end; it's the beginning.
Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life.
The place where you got to get revenues has to come from the middle class. That's where the huge number of people that are there. So the system does need to be revamped [to tax the rich less and the middle class more. ]
You know, we should not be giving cash to people who basically are just going to blow it on drugsand not take care of their own children.
If gun laws in fact worked, the sponsors of this type of legislation should have no difficulty drawing upon long lists of examples of criminal acts reduced by such legislation. That they cannot do so after a century and a half of trying - that they must sweep under the rug the southern attempts at gun control in the 1870-1910 period, the northeastern attempts in the 1920-1939 period, the attempts at both Federal and State levels in 1965-1976 - establishes the repeated, complete and inevitable failure of gun laws to control serious crime.
Foreign Assistance is not an end in itself. The purpose of aid must be to create the conditions where it is no longer needed.
Happiness is something final and complete in itself, as being the aim and end of all practical activities whatever. . . . Happiness then we define as the active exercise of the mind in conformity with perfect goodness or virtue.
Emulation is a handsome passion; it is enterprising, but just withal. It keeps a man within the terms of honor, and makes the contest for glory just and generous. He strives to excel, but it is by raising himself, not by depressing others.
Our lives look a lot more interesting when they’re filtered through the sexy Facebook interface. We star in our own movies, we photograph ourselves incessantly, we click the mouse and a machine confirms our sense of mastery.