Through mutual understanding sincerity and goodwill and with great wisdom and broad views the leaders on both sides should jointly initiate new opportunities for peace stability cooperation and mutual benefit.

I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.

The theoretical understanding of the world which is the aim of philosophy is not a matter of great practical importance to animals or to savages or even to most civilised men.

The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers who can cut through argument debate and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand.

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.

There are many people in the world who really don't understand-or say they don't-what is the great issue between the free world and the Communist world. Let them come to Berlin!

A mistake made by many people with great convictions is that they will let nothing stand in the way of their views not even kindness.

Even though I disagree with many of the changes when I see the privates graduate at the end of the day when they walk off that drill field at the end of the ceremony they are still fine privates outstanding well motivated privates.

The Left regards the Constitution as defective and outmoded - in part because it impedes the government's ability to control institutions like churches and families which stand between the state and individuals.

Republicans rarely criticize Obama for lack of empathy - in part because liberals have traditionally been seen as standing up for the weak and the vulnerable. Conservatives can be just as empathetic. But they believe that in most cases it's not government's role to be the primary dispenser of empathy.

We are all in this together. We want to have I suppose a single point of entry so that anyone coming near a disability service can get a very complete picture. Government needs to understand that picture and we need to be able to offer somebody a one-stop shop.

We have to attack those things which stand in the way of America progress. And what stands in the way of American progress right now is the federal government.

All's the government should do is keep the taxes and regulations at a manageable rate keep a decent standing army and get out of the way.

The universities have got a job here as well in making sure that people actually understand that we're open for university students coming into the U.K. There's a job here not just for the government I think there's a job for the universities as well to make sure that people know that we are open.

You can study government and politics in school but the best way to really understand the process is to volunteer your time.

I stand before you today because this vision of government as the engine of opportunity is what I believe in.

When people don't understand that the government doesn't have their interests in mind they're more susceptible to go to war.

The government's desire to expand global trade may be understandable but we mustn't give away too much. We must tell our elected representatives to at least delay the Canada-China FIPA until it has been examined more thoroughly and to reconsider the inclusion of investor-state arbitration mechanisms in all trade deals.

Health care is one-sixth of our economy. If the government can control that they can control just about everything. We need to understand what is going on because there are much more economic models that can be used to give us good health care than what we have now.

You have citizens who don't understand how government works and they're kind of soured on it. All they do is criticize. They have no idea that they can make things happen.

The Establishment Clause prohibits government from making adherence to a religion relevant in any way to a person's standing in the political community.

Also when you escape a Communist regime you treasure liberty and you understand that as government and state expand liberty must contract.