I've always believed in people's capacity for goodness. I still believe that people are good. What I'm not so trusting about anymore is their relationship to their own goodness.

I always believed in God and Christ but I was in rebellion - trying to make my relationship with God fit into my life instead of making my life fit in with him. I was stubborn.

I was raised on the values of speaking up and making a positive difference in a very political family that believed in the importance of public service.

I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.

What drew me to politics in the first place was the fact that I wanted to have a place to take a stand and use my voice to express what I believed in. But I've no longer got any political aspirations. I feel that as a politician fifty per cent of people would hate you before you even left the house.

If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today.

I have long believed that sacrifice is the pinnacle of patriotism.

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

I always believed in the music we did and that's why it was uncompromising.

I've never believed that pop music is escapist trash. There's always a darkness in it even amidst great pop music.