Unfortunately, every American citizen takes the same position... that we don’t like negative advertisements. But they work! And, as you see, many a candidate has prevailed by tearing down the reputation of an opponent in a more advantageous position.

I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go swimming.

A nation's domestic and foreign policies and actions should be derived from the same standards of ethics, honesty and morality which are characteristic of the individual citizens of the nation.

My esteem in this country has gone up substantially. It is very nice now when people wave at me, they use all their fingers.

Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.

I think the Bible is completely inspired by God in its overall messages. But, for the people of those days to know what was going to happen 4,000 years later in a world of astronomy or subatomic particles. They didn't have access to the knowledge that we presently have about geology. So, we know now that the world was created many of billions of years ago, 13 or 14 billion years ago. As far as they knew, the earth was the center of the universe. They thought that stars were little twinkling things in the sky where as now we know stars are very distant and much larger than the earth.

We can choose to alleviate suffering. We can choose to work together for peace. We can make these changes - and we must.