Let me say this as clearly as I can: No matter how sharp a grievance or how deep a hurt, there is no justification for killing innocents.
My plan after office is to get up and spend that entire first day helping my wife move into her new senatorial office.
Though I often disagree with Republicans, I never learned to hate them the way the far right that now controls their party seems to hate President Obama and the Democrats.
Promising too much can be as cruel as caring too little.
He who truly believes that which prompts him to an action has looked upon the action to lust after it, he has committed it already in his heart.
A militarized police force facing down innocent protesters with sniper rifles and machine guns is totally unacceptable in America.
I have absolutely no confidence in the Ferguson police, the county prosecutor.
Rent-to-own provides a vital service to millions of Americans. It is also critical for African-Americans, Latinos and other minorities to have access to alternative products and services, such as rent-to-own.
I don't believe in making pencil sketches and then painting landscape in your studio. You must be right under the sky.
I get constant reminders from fans who equate that game and my career as one and the same.
You must understand as a kid of color in those days, the Harlem Globetrotters were like being movie stars.
Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.
There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.
We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.
If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.
Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.
I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.
It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.
We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years.
