“If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of its music will furnish the answer.”
“one can never be sure whether it's good poetry or bad acid”
“...If there's one thing I'm well versed in it's my own good qualities.”
“I am old enough to know only too well my good and bad qualities, which were often one in the same.”
“That is the trick of good government. To make folk desire to live in such a way that there is no need for its intervention.”
“When Republicans recently charged the President with promoting 'class warfare,' he answered it was 'just math.' But it's more than math. It's a matter of morality.Republicans have posed the deepest moral question of any society: whether we're all in it together. Their answer is we're not.President Obama should proclaim, loudly and clearly, we are.”