"I don't feel guilt. Whatever I wish to do, I do."

“The refuge from pessimism is the good men and women at any time existing in the world, -they keep faith and happiness alive.”

“Moral principles do not depend on a majority vote. Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is wrong. Right is right, even if nobody is right.”

“When I was about eight, I asked my mother if it was true that God knows everything about you. When she answered yes, I said, 'Then there's no hope for me, Mum.”

Source : "Andrew Sullivan, American by Choice". Interview with Mark Warren, www.esquire.com. November 16, 2011.

“The countries who out-educate us today will out-compete us tomorrow.”

“Falling short of perfection is a process that just never stops.”

“Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.”

“I think that there have been a number of situations in which you’ve seen this administration intervene in a meaningful way, that has substantially furthered American interests and substantially improved the, uh, you know, the – the tranquility of the global community,”

Source : "Is the White House underestimating global threats?". "The Five" with Eric Bolling, www.foxnews.com. August 11, 2014.

“I'm not trying to win a popularity poll. I'm trying to win football games.”