We are going to finish this picture just the way I want it... because you cannot compromise an artist's vision.
The fact that we see something as evil may not necessarily make that thing evil. Evil cannot contest good; succeed and persist
You cannot say we are a healthy, dynamic democracy when one party wins almost two-thirds of the vote.
We cannot afford the EPA's continued expansion of red tape that is slowing economic growth and threatening to entangle millions of small businesses.
Jesus came to give us life so unimaginably beyond anything that we could ever hope to conceptualize that wonder cannot help but be our constant companion.
The rule of the universe is that others can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves, and one can paddle every canoe except one's own.
We cannot neglect the unemployed, underemployed and dislocated workers of America who need ample and widespread funding for federal job training services.
The risk of just one terrorist with just one nuclear weapon is a risk we simply cannot afford to take.
It seems, though, that historically we have now reached a position in which Jews cannot legitimately be understood always and only as presumptive victims.
People who are mean or unkind or rigid - think about it - cannot laugh at themselves. If we can't laugh at ourselves and the human condition, we're going to be mean.
The values and voices of democracy are silent. Either we have lost touch with those values or, no better, believe they need not or cannot be taught.
Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.
We cannot consent to be judged by someone who has suffered less than ourselves. And since each of us regards himself as an unrecognized Job...
One cannot understate the importance of eliminating Bin Laden. He was a symbolic head of the organisation and, as we now know, an operational head of the organisation.
We know that the nation that goes all-in on innovation today will own the global economy tomorrow. This is an edge America cannot surrender.
The argument for getting our own house in order is not an argument for turning our back on the world. We cannot and should not do that.
We are like Humpty Dumpty and all these king's horses and all these king's men cannot put us back together again
We must start with the reality that corporations cannot guarantee anyone a lifetime job any more than corporations have a guarantee of immortality.
We cannot consume our way into personal growth. Yet, millions of us have bought into this cynical concept of faux identity.
America is a grateful nation. We cannot allow anything or anyone to get in the way of that. The words 'veteran' and 'backlog' should never appear in the same sentence.
We cannot negotiate with people who say what's mine is mine and what's yours is negotiable." [ (The White House, July 25, 1961)]
