To me, Faith is not just a noun but also a verb.
Throughout my life, I’ve seen the difference that volunteering efforts can make in people’s lives. I know the personal value of service as a local volunteer.
In a nuclear age, each of us is threatened when peace is not secured everywhere.
Habitat gives us an opportunity which is very difficult to find: to reach out and work side by side with those who never have had a decent home-but work with them on a completely equal basis. It’s not a big-shot, little-shot relationship. It’s a sense of equality.
We simply must balance our demand for energy with our rapidly shrinking resources. By acting now we can control our future instead of letting the future control us.
Communicating our questions, hopes, and fears in prayer makes them-even to ourselves-more open and clear...
Everyone has a right to peaceful coexistence, the basic personal freedoms, the alleviation of suffering, and the opportunity to lead a productive life...
Energy will be the immediate test of our ability to unite this Nation, and it can also be the standard around which we rally. On the battlefield of energy we can win for our Nation a new confidence, and we can seize control again of our common destiny.
If you’re totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you.
I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over.
Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.
We cannot be both the world’s leading champion of peace and the world’s leading supplier of the weapons of war.
Many of the most highly publicized events of my presidency are not nearly as memorable or significant in my life as fishing with my daddy.
There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat.
Testing oneself is best when done alone.
You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.
Our values are not luxuries, but necessities. They are not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself.
It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature’s gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.
Habitat has opened up unprecedented opportunities for me to cross the chasm that separates those of us who are free, safe, financially secure, well fed and housed, and influential enough to shape our own destiny from our neighbors who enjoy few, if any, of these advantages of life.
Unless both sides win, no agreement can be permanent.