"Bill Clinton"

• "Big things are expected of us, and nothing big ever came of being small.
• “If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person. It's how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit.”
• “We cannot build our own future without helping others to build theirs.”
• “Global poverty is a powder keg that could be ignited by our indifference.”
• “Sometimes when people are under stress, they hate to think, and it's the time when they most need to think.”
• “I like that about the Republicans; the evidence does not faze them, they are not bothered at all by the facts.”
• “Affirmative action is an effort to develop a systematic approach to open the doors of education, employment and business development opportunities to qualified individuals who happen to be members of groups that have experienced long-standing and per”
• “Success is not the measure of a man but a triumph over those who choose to hold him back.”
• “Globalization is not something we can hold off or turn off . . . it is the economic equivalent of a force of nature -- like wind or water.”
• “We should, all of us, be filled with gratitude and humility for our present progress and prosperity. We should be filled with awe and joy at what lies over the horizon. And we should be filled with absolute determination to make the most of it.”
• “By lifting the weakest, poorest among us, we lift the rest of us as well.”
• “There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America”
• “We need not just a new generation of leadership but a new gender of leadership”
• “I may not have been the greatest president, but I've had the most fun eight years.”
• “The purpose of politics is to give people tools to make the most of their lives.”
• “Politics is not religion and we should govern on the basis of evidence, not theology.”
• “The road to tyranny, we must never forget, begins with the destruction of the truth”

"Thomas Jefferson"

• A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.
• A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
• A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.
• A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government.
• Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
• All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
• All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.
• Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.
• An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.
• An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
• An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.
• As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.
• Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
• Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.
• Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.
• But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.
• Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.
• Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government.
• Delay is preferable to error.
• Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.

"Einstein"

• A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.
• A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.
• A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
• A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?
• A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?
• All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.
• All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.
• All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.
• An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.
• Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
• Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction.
• Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
• Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
• Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
• Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
• Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
• As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
• As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
• Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
• Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

"Barack Obama"

• A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.'
• Al Qaeda is still a threat. We cannot pretend somehow that because Barack Hussein Obama got elected as president, suddenly everything is going to be OK.
• America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.
• Americans... still believe in an America where anything's possible - they just don't think their leaders do.
• As a nuclear power - as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon - the United States has a moral responsibility to act.
• Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
• Community colleges play an important role in helping people transition between careers by providing the retooling they need to take on a new career.
• Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.
• I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.
• I cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator.
• I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.
• I don't care whether you're driving a hybrid or an SUV. If you're headed for a cliff, you have to change direction. That's what the American people called for in November, and that's what we intend to deliver.
• I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.
• I don't take a dime of their [lobbyist] money, and when I am president, they won't find a job in my White House.
• I found this national debt, doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office.
• I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we've struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We've made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.
• I opposed the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996. It should be repealed and I will vote for its repeal on the Senate floor. I will also oppose any proposal to amend the U.S. Constitution to ban gays and lesbians from marrying.
• I think it is important for Europe to understand that even though I am president and George Bush is not president, Al Qaeda is still a threat.
• I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody.
• I will cut taxes - cut taxes - for 95 percent of all working families, because, in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle class.

"Aristotle"

• A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.
• A friend to all is a friend to none.
• A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.
• A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.
• A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.
• A true friend is one soul in two bodies.
• A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.
• All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
• All men by nature desire knowledge.
• All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
• All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
• Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.
• At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.
• Bad men are full of repentance.
• Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
• Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.
• Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.
• Change in all things is sweet.
• Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.
• Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

"Socratic Line"

• True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
• True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
• Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.
• Wisdom begins in wonder.
• Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.

"Socrates "

• I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
• I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
• I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
• If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
• If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.
• It is not living that matters, but living rightly.
• Let him that would move the world first move himself.
• My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher.
• Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
• Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
• One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.
• Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.
• Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.
• The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.
• The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
• The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
• The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.
• The unexamined life is not worth living.
• The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
• To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.