“The decent, strong person had to do decent, strong things like love unlovable people and keep peace even when it wasn't easy.”
Source: Doctor in Petticoats (Center Point Christian Romance
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“There are some times… when the love for people is strong and warm like a sorrow.”
Source: To a God Unknown

1960, Address at Convention Hall, Philadelphia
Context: In short, I believe in an America that is on the march — an America respected by all nations, friends and foes alike — an America that is moving, doing, working, trying — a strong America in a world of peace. That peace must be based on world law and world order, on the mutual respect of all nations for the rights and powers of others and on a world economy in which no nation lacks the ability to provide a decent standard of living for all of its people. But we cannot have such a world, and we cannot have such a peace, unless the United States has the vitality and the inspiration and the strength. If we continue to stand still, if we continue to lie at anchor, if we continue to sit on dead center, if we content ourselves with the easy life and the rosy assurances, then the gates will soon be open to a lean and hungry enemy.

“When people see a strong horse and a weak horse, by nature they will like the strong horse.”
Video interview, quoted in Analyzing Leaders, Presidents and Terrorists by Diane E. Holloway page 325 https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Jc7CY1yV1g8C&pg=PA325, with NPR transcript https://www.npr.org/news/specials/response/investigation/011213.binladen.transcript.html (9 November 2001)
2000s, 2002
On not reading reviews of her acting.
Evening Standard, Thu 5 Jan 2012, p. 16

2000s, 2001, First inaugural address (January 2001)

“But to admire a strong person
and to live under that strong person’s thumb are
two different things.”

“the Bible is only as good and decent as the person reading it.”
Source: American Savage: Insights, Slights, and Fights on Faith, Sex, Love, and Politics