You don’t lead by hitting people over the head—that’s assault, not leadership.
Prophet Mohammed would have no objection to The Satanic Verses.
Bombs and pistols do not make a revolution. The sword of revolution is sharpened on the whetting stone of ideas.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
We walk together, we move together, we think together, we resolve together, and together we take this country forward.
You can’t learn in school what the world is going to do next year.
The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes.
Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
No real change in history has ever been achieved by discussions.