Yeah ideally I'd probably wish to be more anonymous. But scrutiny and success go together. And I want to be successful.

Permanent success cannot be achieved except by incessant intellectual labour always inspired by the ideal.

Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

An America that inspires hope in its ideals must complement an America that inspires awe in its strength.

The idealists will always be in society and we will survive.

Every society rests in the last resort on the recognition of common principles and common ideals and if it makes no moral or spiritual appeal to the loyalty of its members it must inevitably fall to pieces.

We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society.

I think we need to just be very clear about what we're trying to do in Afghanistan. Frankly we're not trying to create the perfect democracy. We're never going to create some ideal society. We are simply there for our own national security.

I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities.

A third ideal that has made its way in the modern world is reliance on reason especially reason disciplined and enriched by modern science. An eternal basis of human intercommunication is reason.