“If we treat people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming.”

“I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather. I possess tremendous power to make life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration, I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis is escalated or de-escalated, and a person is humanized or de-humanized. If we treat people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming.”

“The worse we treat people in this country, the more delicately we talk about them.”

“The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.”

“If I run and if I win, we will treat those people from January sixth fairly. We will treat them fairly.
And if it requires pardons, we will give them pardons. Because they are being treated so unfairly.”

“I think the problem with the country is that we operate on a sickness model, not a wellness model… Basically, we treat people who become ill. What we don't do is do a very good job in keeping them healthy in the first place… We lose all the educational benefits, all the things we could be doing, all the things we ought to be doing, in terms of food safety… because the emphasis is on sickness. But I really don't think there's a conspiracy to make people sick so we can heal them. That I don't agree with.”

“We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it's all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It's the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.”

“If we as people allow ourselves to be caught up in either PRIDE or SHAME, we severely limit the scope of what we are capable of doing and what we are capable of of becoming in this life.”

“What we really expect out of the Democrats is for them to treat us as they would like to have been treated.”

“To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”