I loved every day I was in politics. But I got out at the right time. I never miss it.
Set politics and party aside: If it's not right for Michigan's small businesses and middle class, it's never been right with me.
Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
Anything that's not positive, I don't have the energy to focus on it. Anything that's not going in the right direction, I don't have the time or the energy.
We're right to say that a culture that can't tolerate free speech is... there are a wide range of positive human experiences that are not available in that culture. And we're right to want those experiences.
Fear is afraid of you. Don't think so? Walk right up to it, then right past it and see if it doesn't run and hide.
…the universe…sets out little signposts for us along the way, to confirm that we’re on the right path.” (p.XV)
If the right to privacy means anything, it is the right of the individual, married or single, to be free from unwarranted governmental intrusion.
Never be afraid to stand with the minority when the minority is right, for the minority which is right will one day be the majority.
Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion?
Necessity is the plea for every infringement on human rights. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
In the view of some people, you can only believe in civil rights if you work as a civil rights lawyer. I just don't buy that.
I believe when you meet the right person it clicks, and you both know and you start making it work, you know?
It's a very, very difficult space to operate in, the restaurant business-it requires a lot of human beings to intersect at just the right place to make it all work out.
The women's rights movement of the 1970s had not yet emerged; except for Bella Abzug, I had no women supporters.
He who does not wish for little things does not deserve big things.
Hoke Colburn: [on a pay phone calling Boolie after taking Daisy to the Piggly Wiggly] Hello, Mr. Werthan? Yeah, it's me. Guess where I'm at? I jus' finished drivin' yo mama to da store. [laughs] Hoke Colburn: Oh, yeah, she flap around some, but she's...
Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.
There is no wind that blows right for the sailor who doesn't know where the harbor is.
In bad things be slow; in good things be quick.
Do little things now; so shall big things come to thee by and by asking to be done.