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Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.
The prison industrial complex is perhaps, at least domestically, the most striking example of us putting profit before people. It all stems from one basic misunderstanding: that the public good can be shepherded by private interests.
To be interested in the public good we must be disinterested, that is, not interested in goods in which our personal selves are wrapped up.
It is interesting to note that the 200 richest people have more assets than the 2 billion poorest.
An individual, in promoting his own interest, may injure the public interest; a nation, in promoting the general welfare, may check the interest of a part of its members.
I call God to witness that as a private person I have done nothing unbeseeming an honest man, nor, as I bear the place of a public man, have I done anything unworthy of my place.
The right of an individual to conduct intimate relationships in the intimacy of his or her own home seems to me to be the heart of the Constitution's protection of privacy.
The process of getting regulations right is described publicly as far more political than in fact it is. It's essentially a legal and technical enterprise.
I don't have any regrets in my life actually. I think that's a pretty good policy.
