No matter how small the gift, God gives the increase.
When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
No matter how big the lie; repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as the truth.
This is not a time to keep the facts from the people-to keep them complacent. To sound the alarm is not to panic but to seek action from an aroused public. For, as the poet Dante once said: 'The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in a time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.
One person can make a difference, and everyone should try.
Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.
When I'm old I'm never going to say,I didn't do this or, I regret that. I'm going to say,I don't regret a damn thing. I came, I went, and I did it all.
So here you have Barack Obama going in and spending the money on embryonic stem cell research. Eugenics.
If the general public demanded better, they'd get better, because the marketplace responds to the public's needs and desires.
I don't expect to try to get people to like everything I do. I want them to respect what I do.