"Clem (Clementa Pinckney) understood that justice grows..." - Quote by Barack Obama

“There are problems that just end up being really hard and by definition the only problems that come to my desk are the ones that nobody else can solve.”

“We cannot meet 21st Century challenges with a 20th Century bureaucracy.”

“We do have to balance this issue of privacy and security. Those who pretend that there's no balance that has to be struck and think we can take a 100-percent absolutist approach to protecting privacy don't recognize that governments are going to be under an enormous burden to prevent the kinds of terrorist acts that not only harm individuals, but also can distort our society and our politics in very dangerous ways.”

“There is in fact a true law namely right reason, which is in accordance with nature, applies to all men and is unchangeable and eternal. ... It will not lay down one rule at Rome and another at Athens, nor will it be one rule today and another tomorrow. But there will be one law eternal and unchangeable binding all times and upon all peoples.”

“My main fight is for freedom and equality.”

“Only a peace between equals can last. Only a peace the very principle of which is equality and a common participation in a common benefit.”

“Trouble makes us one with every human being in the world - and unless we touch others, we're out of touch with life.”

“One pain is lessened by another's anguish.”

“Sympathy is a supporting atmosphere, and in it we unfold easily and well.”