"I was out there for 12 days. There are more beggars in Soho than there are in Kabul."

“There is no permanent absolute unchangeable truth; what we should pursue is the most convenient arrangement of our ideas.”

“I think what's going to hurt the Republicans enormously is the extremist position of Mitt Romney on the immigration issue and states like New Mexico, states like Colorado, Nevada, Arizona - and I think it's going to be the margin of victory for President Obama, a very narrow victory.”

Source : "Bill Richardson: Latino Presidential Candidate Coming Soon". "Fox News Latino" with Juan Williams, www.foxnews.com. June 18, 2012.

“None of our men are 'experts.' We have most unfortunately found it necessary to get rid of a man as soon as he thinks himself an expert because no one ever considers himself expert if he really knows his job . . . Thinking always ahead, thinking always of trying to do more, brings a state of mind in which nothing is impossible.”

“Defensively, I think it’s important for us to tackle.”

“It is always the task of the intellectual to "think otherwise." This is not just a perverse idiosyncrasy. It is an absolutely essential feature of a society.”

Source : Harvey Cox (2013). “The Secular City: Secularization and Urbanization in Theological Perspective”, p.270, Princeton University Press

“He is educated who knows how to find out what he doesn't know.”

“Everyone has dreams. But it is what you do with these dreams that is important. Dreams, once you make the decision to act on them can become reality.”

“Where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence.”