No king should rule absolutely, like a dictator.
He is forever poised between a cliche and an indiscretion.
I have been no more than a medium, as it were.
I know firsthand how agonizing waiting can be.
The constitution controls any legislative act repugnant to it.
I concede nothing until they throw dirt on my face.
My goal as a writer is more to comfort than to disturb.
America is in a runaway-train position and dragging all the world with it. It's grotesquely mentally ill.
I'm called 'the poorest president', but I don't feel poor.
I give myself the luxury of saying what I want.
The goatherds were the poorest people of Spain. Probably, they were the richest.
If the inmates of Guantanamo want to make their nests in Uruguay, they can do it.
Race always comes up in the conversation of Detroit.
Thousands die each year because they are uninsured or under-insured.
We do not need torture as an available instrument of interrogation.
I am pleased with the direction we are moving in.
Political commercials encourage the deceptive, the destructive and the degrading.
With me it is exceptionally true that the Presidency is no bed of roses.
Everyone sees drama from his own perspective.
There was no reason to label us as anti-Semitic.
every good artist paints what he is