A nation that does not stand for its children does not stand for anything and will not stand tall in the future.
There was a real choice when [Barack Obama] became president. It was a very difficult choice - to say, "We're not going to hold senior officials to account with the same laws that every other citizen in the country is held to," or "This is a nation that believes in the rule of law."
Leadership is preserving the nation's ideals.
If a nation allows its literary culture to die, it's a sign that it doesn't fundamentally care.
The whole Twitter phenomenon is really indicative of what's happening in this country. And I say this in condemnation of myself as much as anyone else - we are growing into a nation that has no time, desire or capacity for truth. All we can handle is 140 characters of knowledge.
No one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens but its lowest ones.
A nation cannot afford to do a mean thing.
Any society, any nation, is judged on the basis of how it treats its weakest members - the last, the least, the littlest.
