The art of governing consists simply of being honest, exercising common sense, following principle, and doing what is right and just.

A lawyer art thou? Draw not nigh! Go, carry to some fitter place The keenness of that practised eye, The hardness of that sallow face.

The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope

The welfare of the people is the ultimate law.

The only thing that mattered was the honor and joy of walking with God.

We need to make sure that the laws we're passing are protecting people. And we should not be voting against something that makes progress just because it doesn't make as much progress as we'd like to see made. As much as I might like to see any number of issues progress in larger steps, I understand that some of these things happen in smaller steps. And so for that reason, progress is progress. And success is success.

Where there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned

Wealthy women have rights in every country. And poor women don't.

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.

We are here to advance the cause of women and to advance the cause of democracy and to make it absolutely clear that the two are inseparable. There cannot be true democracy unless women's voices are heard. There cannot be true democracy unless women are given the opportunity to take responsibility for their own lives.

We ought to affirm the fact that hundreds of thousands if not millions of Iranians are risking their liberty and even perhaps their lives to take a stand for the values upon which we have really founded this nation.