We can choose between the future and the past, between reason and ignorance, between true compassion and mere ideology.

We have three cats. It's like having children, but there is no tuition involved.

I'm aware that most people who meet me for the first time think of me in a certain way because of who my father is. That just comes with the territory. But that's been that way ever since I was a little kid as long as I can remember. I grew up that way.

You cannot be against embryonic stem cell research and be intellectually and therefore morally consistent, if you're not also against in vitro fertilization.

I have to say that flying on Air Force One sort of spoils you for coach on a regular airline.

I couldn't join a party that, frankly, tolerates members who are bigots for one thing, homophobes, racists.

We can choose between the future and the past, between reason and ignorance, between true compassion and mere ideology.

I admire the fact that the central core of Buddhist teaching involves mindfulness and loving kindness and compassion.

My father didn't know George W. Bush from Adam.

When you hear somebody justifying a war by citing the Almighty, I get a little worried, frankly.

My wife and I just prefer Seattle. It's a beautiful city. Great setting. You open your front door in the morning and the air smells like pine and the sea, as opposed to bus exhaust.

Stem cell research can revolutionize medicine, more than anything since antibiotics.

My father felt that children should make their own way.

Now, ignorance is one thing, ignorance can be cured. But many of the Republican leaders opposing this research know better.

What do you say to your sister who poses in the nude? It's not like you are really itching to see photographs of your sister naked. I mean, it's just something that is not too exciting.

Neither of my parents would ever stand in the way of any of their children speaking their minds.

The joke in our family is that we can cry reading the phone book.

He had written my mother once that he wanted her to be the first thing he saw every morning and the last thing he ever saw. And that's how it turned out.

My father never felt the need to wrap himself in anybody's mantle. He never felt the need to pretend to be anybody else. This is their administration. This is their war. If they can't stand on their own two feet, well, they're no Ronald Reagans, that's for sure.

I mean, we've had all these awful pictures from the prison in Iraq and these sort of memos floating around about justifying torture, all this kind of stuff. And it makes you want to take a shower, you know?

I mow my own lawn.

I could share an hour of warm camaraderie with Dad, then once I'd walked out the door, get the uncanny feeling I'd disappeared into the wings of his mind's stage, like a character no longer necessary to the ongoing story line.

I've been to Reagan National Airport. I tell people it was named after me.

John McCain knows as well as anyone that Sarah Palin has no business being anywhere near the Oval Office. I'm sorry, it's got nothing to do with the fact that she wears skirts - she's grossly unqualified.

My father was a public figure all my life, and so the presidency was an extension of that. I guess you get used to it, though you can stand back occasionally and think, 'Boy, this is really weird!'

My father was not a bully. I almost never heard him raise his voice to anybody.

You look at women at the Republican convention and women at the Democratic convention. Republicans have a certain aesthetic beauty that involves more makeup, bigger hair, more lurid outfits.

The final causes, then, of compassion are to prevent and to relieve misery.

The super power that I would choose would be compassion. Because that's what I think it takes to make it through life-an understanding, a give and take. It saves an awful lot of resentment.

Something called 'the Oklahoma Standard' became known throughout the world. It means resilience in the face of adversity. It means a strength and compassion that will not be defeated.

At the end of the day, love and compassion will win.

The law has no compassion. And justice is administered without compassion.

If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.

Bush promised a foreign policy of humility and a domestic policy of compassion. He has given us a foreign policy of arrogance and a domestic policy that is cynical, myopic and cruel.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.

You can do and use the skills that you have. The schools need you. The teachers need you. Students and parents need you. They need your actual person: your physical personhood and your open minds and open ears and boundless compassion, sitting next to them, listening and nodding and asking questions for hours at a time.

Happiness and peace will come to earth only as the light of love and human compassion enter the souls of men.

I am so proud of Michigan's citizens for the kindness and generosity they have shown in assisting in this endeavor. It is truly heartwarming to see the compassion shown for those in need.

Some people are filled by compassion and a desire to do good, and some simply don't think anything's going to make a difference.

Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves.

What President Bush has done speaks more than words about his feeling of compassion and commitment to people.

Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy.

No, you're not allowed to be bossy when you're married. You have to learn compromise, and compassion and patience.

In times such as these, people should recognize that evil knows no borders, knows no limits and knows no compassion. Those around the globe that value freedom must continue to persevere even in the darkest of times.

I do it because I want to exercise people's compassion and I do it because I really believe that for some reason what I do is important and meaningful.

I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.

I think one of the best words in the English language is compassion. I think it holds everything. It holds love, it holds care... and if everybody just did something. We all make a difference.