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“Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.”
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“The American people owe it to themselves, and to the cause of free Government, to prove by their establishments for the advancement and diffusion of knowledge, that their political Institutionsare as favorable to the intellectual and moral improvement of Man as they are conformable to his individual and social rights.”
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“If you're a doctor, or a scientist, or a computer programmer, it shouldn't matter whether you come from Nigeria, or Norway, or any other country on this earth. Today though we have a system that rewards ties of blood, ties of kin, ties of clan. That's one of the most un-American immigration systems I can imagine.”
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“Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God.”
Source : The Essential Lenny Bruce, ed. John Cohen (1967)
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“Humor gives presidents the chance to be seen as warm, relaxed persons. Humor reaches out and puts its arm around the listener and says, 'I am one of you, I understand,' and implicitly it promises, 'I will do something about your problems.”
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“And in singing, what my voice lacked in quality it made up for in volume.”
Source : "From Under My Hat".
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“The audience should feel they are hearing the future, that is arriving just on time.”
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“A good special education teacher is hard to find and even harder to hang on to.”
