Abraham Lincoln Quotes

There are no journalistic ethics that transcend the value of human life. There are none. In a situation where you can save a human life, you must. There isn't any conflict in my mind.

You’ve got to help people that are downtrodden and poor, and I just think that that’s part of our culture. You’ve got to help people that can’t help themselves.

Government does not have a monopoly on compassion.

I favor the policy of economy, not because I wish to save money, but because I wish to save people.

Republican politics: Every man for himself. Democratic politics: Something for nothing.

I hold that all war is morally wrong and its prosecution a crime. I hold life as sacred and cannot bring myself to join in the slaughter of my fellow men.

Any civilization which respects itself admits to its basic responsibility of providing for its members in need. But few civilizations have achieved greatness by treating all their members as needy.

Emma Lazarus was wrong. America's first duty is to its own poor.

In the service of the people we followed such a policy that socialism would not lose its human face.

All human beings are our brother and sisters. Working for their welfare is obligatory for Muslims

Surly bleeding hearts are better than bleeding bodies.

They [the conservative Republicans] have tried to sell us this trickle down fairy dust before.

Europe’s conservative parties, like Republicans in the United States, have for the most part, turned into shrill apostles of austerity at almost any social cost.

The Democrats want to help people who have been disadvantaged by the economy these last decades. The Republicans want to weaken and roll back various aspects of what the Democrats have tried to do.

If you want to live like a Republican, vote Democratic.

You can't run a government solely on a business basis ... Government should be human. It should have a heart.

Every human being has the right to live. It is our duty to acknowledge that right by providing for it. In a natural state of society it would take care of itself. As matters are now it must be deliberately provided for.

There's a lack of people in power that are motivated by the idea of helping people.

The libertarian position I once propended now seems to me seriously inadequate, in part because it did not fully knit the humane considerations and joint cooperative activities it left room for more closely into its fabric.

I don't have time for politics. There is a mission, and that is to save lives.

It's our moral obligation, as well as, I believe, it is the government's obligation to take care of its people.

Bob Rubin was opposed to signing the welfare bill. He's not exactly what I call a flaming liberal.

If someone were lying on the road dying would it matter to you who came to save you? If it was a Democrat or a Republican, would it matter?

I free slaves because I believe we are all created equal. I just can't think of anything that has a higher purpose than putting value on human life.

You don't have to get into, 'I'm a leftist or a rightist, I'm Democrat or Republican.' You don't have to get into that kind of nitty gritty type of detail, but at the same time to show that you do have a stance is very, very important. To preach the good word of just being a good human being, being a humanitarian.