“They’re dedicated, patriotic Americans. They will work with any president. They want to have a good relationship with every president.”

Let us have a moral victory that can shine as a light to all nations.

We can’t do it alone. And that has to begin by his acknowledgment of the facts.

When the world is at war with terrorism and the United States cannot afford to offend the sensibility of our Turkish ally.

An America that inspires hope in its ideals must complement an America that inspires awe in its strength.

There are perfectly appropriate circumstances to unmask the names of people.

Terrific. Now to win a larceny trial all we have to do is prove how the universe ends.

We know that the evidence or information is sufficient to warrant an FBI investigation of this.

I’m just concerned that as long as this caliphate exists, it provides this magnet for radicalization, and we’re likely to see more attacks like we have seen in San Bernardino, Chattanooga and elsewhere, and that’s the concern I have over pace.

We cannot afford to dissemble about crimes against humanity.

Too much under the thumb of the Iranians.

We still have a problem here in this country of access to airports and airplanes [for terrorists].

If giving points to some students to achieve greater diversity is a quota system in violation of the Constitution, how can the awarding of points to the children of a less diverse alumni be upheld?

Whether we kept a certain number of troops there or pulled out completely

I’m concerned the clock is ticking, and the danger to the American people is still very present.

The only element of it that concerned him was how it might impact him personally.

But even race-neutral policies and recruitment efforts designed to achieve greater diversity are, in the end, not race neutral.

I will be small in small things, great among great.

To laugh is proper to man.

A public debt is a kind of anchor in the storm; but if the anchor be too heavy for the vessel, she will be sunk by that very weight which was intended for her preservation.

The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.

Eternal life is not primarily duration but quality of life, “life to the limit.

Whether God exists or does not exist, He has come to rank among the most sublime and useless truths.

Every day you and I walk through God’s shop. Every day we brush up against objects of incalculable worth to Him. People. Every one of them carries a price tag, if only we could see it.

We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.