Life comes from death, and weakness teaches us strength.
All I care is what the boys at the forks of the creek think of me.
God, don't let me die. I have so much left to do.
I do not want the voice of the people shut out.
I can frighten or buy ninety-nine out of every one hundred men.
I don't know much about Hitler. Except that last thing, about the Jews. There has never been a country that put its heel down on the Jews that ever lived afterwards.
They kept on hollering, and I simply had to put my foot down. I said, 'I'm the governor and I say the ignorant in this state have to learn, blacks as well as whites. ' And they learned.
What torments of grief you endured, from evils that never arrived
There are few things in politics more annoying than the Right's utter conviction that it owns the patent on the word 'freedom' that when its leaders stand up for the rights of banks to be unregulated or capital gains to be untaxed, that it is actually and obviously standing up for human liberty, the noblest cause of them all.
One of the issues I'm really happy about is that recently, Secretary Clinton and I worked out an agreement on higher education, making public colleges and universities tuition free for every family in America earning less than 125,000 bucks. Didn't go as far as I wanted. But that's 83 percent of the population in this country.
Art and life are subjective. Not everybody's gonna dig what I dig, but I reserve the right to dig it.