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The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible.

In almost every profession - whether it's law or journalism, finance or medicine or academia or running a small business - people rely on confidential communications to do their jobs. We count on the space of trust that confidentiality provides. When someone breaches that trust, we are all worse off for it.

In the Bible it says they asked Jesus how many times you should forgive, and he said 70 times 7. Well, I want you all to know that I'm keeping a chart.

The Arctic is going to be an area of intense interest. Russia has the longest coastline in the world with the Arctic.

Great nations need organizing principles, and 'Don't do stupid stuff' is not an organizing principle.

I think we have to face the reality that in a society where there is a legitimate threat of terrorism, not being able to see one's face, not being able to have some sense of communication in that way, is for many societies a challenge.

If you're not comfortable with public speaking - and nobody starts out comfortable; you have to learn how to be comfortable - practice. I cannot overstate the importance of practicing. Get some close friends or family members to help evaluate you, or somebody at work that you trust.

I get it that some people just don't know what to make of me.

Forgiveness is a way of opening up the doors again and moving forward, whether it's a personal life or a national life.

Good grief, we're getting offended by everything these days! People can't say anything without offending somebody.

The need for peace in Northern Ireland goes well beyond political stability. It now speaks to regional Europe and even global stability.

Now, I have always believed that women are not victims; we are agents of change, we are drivers of progress, we are makers of peace - all we need is a fighting chance.

In too many instances, the march to globalization has also meant the marginalization of women and girls. And that must change.

If a country doesn't recognize minority rights and human rights, including women's rights, you will not have the kind of stability and prosperity that is possible.

The United States strongly condemns the illegal disclosure of classified information. It puts people's lives in danger, threatens our national security, and undermines our efforts to work with other countries to solve shared problems.

You can kill ten of our men for every one we kill of yours. But even at those odds, you will lose and we will win.

You will kill 10 of our men, and we will kill 1 of yours, and in the end it will be you who tire of it.

Write in such a way as that you can be readily understood by both the young and the old, by men as well as women, even by children.

Love other human beings as you would love yourself.

When the prison doors are opened, the real dragon will fly out.

Remember, the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability.

The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man.

But by reading them again and again finally I was able to grasp the essential part. What emotion, enthusiasm, enlightenment and confidence they communicated to me! I wept for joy.

It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me.

Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty.

I only follow one party: the Vietnamese party.

The object of my relationship with Vietnam has been to heal the wounds that exist, particularly among our veterans, and to move forward with a positive relationship,... Apparently some in the Vietnamese government don't want to do that and that's their decision.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

To be is to do.

Ingratitude is the essence of vileness.

If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.

What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?

It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.

Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.

Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.

But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.

All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

By a lie, a man... annihilates his dignity as a man.

In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.

Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.

Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.

I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.

Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose.