I went through baseball as 'a player to be named later.'

Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.

Obama often criticizes policies that place the interests of the powerful ahead of the powerless. But through his administration's support of abortion rights Obama shows his lack of empathy for society's most powerless.

Life and human society are the chief concern of Confucianism and through it the chief concern of the Chinese people.

You're scrutinized all through your life - you're scrutinized by your family by yourself by society and your friends in a certain way shape or form.

A generous basic state pension is the least a civilized society should offer those who have worked hard and saved through their whole lives.

I have in some ways saved characters that have been marginalized by society by playing them - and having them still have dignity and still survive still get through it.

At its most basic the democratic contract is a simple one: the right to vote comes with a responsibility to society through tax payments and citizenship.

I started out in engineering. I was a geophysical engineer. Throughout the course of my life I've done a lot of strange jobs and the effect has been to make me think a little more skeptically about our capitalist society.

I give away something up to $500 million a year throughout the world promoting Open Society. My foundations support people in the country who care about an open society. It's their work that I'm supporting. So it's not me doing it.