President Jimmy Carter was a citizen soldier. Ironically, he was considered weak because he didn't kill anybody and he didn't get anyone killed.

Influence is like a savings account, the less you use it, the more you've got

Martin Luther King was talking about racism, war and poverty. I think we have made progress enormous progress in racism and war, but we have made little or no progress in poverty. And it's because the economy has gotten more and more complex as we have globalized.

My solutions are to include Africa in the global economy, and not African charity, AIDS research, but African infrastructure development. And I think that Africa can import and needs everything the whole world can manufacture. And they have got enough money to pay for it. It's just that the money is in the ground.

I think we've made tremendous progress on racism. We've even made progress on war. We've made almost no progress on poverty.

Both the brightness and the spectrum of the X-rays are very different from what theory predicts.

For most of the world, civil and political rights... come as luxuries that are far away in the future.