Lawyer Quotes

I care so passionately about improving the quality of life for women and girls, not just here in the United States, but internationally as well. I am a single mom and I raised a daughter who is now a young adult.

For those that are working part time, in small businesses, or who are unemployed and do not currently have health insurance, we want to make sure that you are covered.

Financial regulatory reform is one of the top legislative priorities of the Obama Administration.

But if I were to sum up who Barack Obama is and how he plans to meet this moment with one word, that word would be 'responsibility.' Responsibility to each other, our families, our communities, our country, and our world.

As we try to compete in this global marketplace, we need to rebuild our infrastructure. We need to rebuild our schools. We need to make sure that teachers and first responders and veterans who are coming home from serving our country so proudly have jobs waiting for them.

There are certain things that Americans expect their government to do. Our infrastructure is vitally important. Putting people back to work with construction is important. Our roads, our bridges, our sewers, our waterways, our dams - this is what makes our country so special.

President Obama celebrates diversity, yet instinctively seeks common ground and builds on that common ground to make progress.

A new era of responsibility is here.

If left unchecked, global change will create violent conflict, torrential storms, shrinking coastlines, and irreversible catastrophe.

Our whole philosophy is one of transparency.

Given the daunting challenges that we face, it's important that president elect Obama is prepared to really take power and begin to rule day one.

Not one man will the State of Missouri furnish to carry on any unholy crusade.

If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn't pay Smith.

Courage without conscience is a wild beast.

In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.

Insolence is not logic; epithets are the arguments of malice.

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot.

Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.

It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it.

My creed is that: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so.

In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.

We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.

A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie.

Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.

Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.

I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous - if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men.

If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane.