"They say that at that moment you didn't do this, you didn't do that, but at that time I didn't have the means. I didn't have an army to stop the killings. I'm not Moses, I can't do miracles."

“I'm very inspired by him-it was my father who taught us that an immigrant must work twice as hard as anybody else, that he must never give up.”

“It is worse that a crime, it is a blunder. [Fr., C'est plus qu'un crime, c'est une faute.]”

“I don't know that there has ever been a time when Abraham Lincoln didn't stand head-and-shoulders above all other presidents in the historians' eye. But relatively speaking, there have been peaks and a troughs. One peak was in the 1910s-20s; a major trough was in the 1970s-80s. We are certainly on a peak again, something which began in 1994 with Michael Burlingame's 'The Inner World of Abraham Lincoln,' which showed in fabulous detail how many new and untapped sources were available on Lincoln.”

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“I have an irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better for my having lived in it.”

“PLUNDER, v. To take the property of another without observing the decent and customary reticences of theft. To wrest the wealth of A from B and leave C lamenting a vanishing opportunity.”

“What makes community organizing especially attractive is the faith it places in the ability of the poor to make decisions for themselves.”

“The truth is, ***** probably isn't going to make you kill people. Most likely isn't going to fund terrorists, but pot makes you feel fine with being bored and it's when you're bored that you should be learning a new skill or some new science or being creative. If you smoke pot you may grow up to find out that you're not good at anything.”

“Capture the day, put minimum trust on tomorrow.”