50 quotes
America is an idea, but it's an idea that brings with it some baggage, like power brings responsibility.
PENN Address (2004)
It is such an important idea, Jubilee, that Jesus begins his ministry with this.
National Prayer Breakfast (2006)
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
PENN Address (2004)
Sing the melody line you hear in your own head. Remember, you don't owe anybody any explanations, you don't owe your parents any explanations, you don't owe your professors any explanations.
PENN Address (2004)
It is fair to say that we overreacted a bit.
What are the ideas right now worth betraying? What are the lies we tell ourselves now?
PENN Address (2004)
We can be the generation that no longer accepts that an accident of latitude determines whether a child lives or dies. But will we be that generation?
Foreword to The End of Poverty (2005)
What a city, what a night, what a crowd, what a bomb, what a mistake, what a wanker you have for a President.
History, like God, is watching what we do.
National Prayer Breakfast (2006)
I didn't expect change to come so slow, so agonizingly slow.
PENN Address (2004)
That's not a cause, that's an emergency.
PENN Address (2004)
It's an amazing thing to think that ours is the first generation in history that really can end extreme poverty, the kind that means a child dies for lack of food in its belly.
Hey if God will send his angels
And if God will send a sign
And if God will send his angels
Would everything be alright?
Don't get me too excited because I use four letter words when I get excited.
PENN Address (2004)
Be honest. We have the science, the technology, and the wealth. What we don't have is the will, and that's not a reason that history will accept.
I'm wary of faith outside of actions. I'm wary of religiosity that ignores the wider world.
Rolling Stone interview (2005)
What he was really talking about was an era of grace — and we're still in it.
National Prayer Breakfast (2006)
Fuck the revolution! … Where's the glory of bombing a Remembrance Day parade of old-age-pensioners, their medals taken out and polished up for the day? Where's the glory in that?
"It's much harder to be relevant than it is to be successful"
CNN Larry King Weekend (2002)
The thing about The Dubliners is — line'em up, the hardest rock'n'roll bands in the world, AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, The Who, Oasis, Nirvana, U2 — we're all a bunch of girls next to The Dubliners.
Ronnie Drew (2008)