Political Quotes

“before I speak about the two nominees who are before us this afternoon, I feel compelled to make a couple of brief comments about the tragedy that occurred in South Carolina. Sometimes it is difficult to understand why there still seems to be so much hatred in the world. I remember the President and First Lady of Rwanda telling my wife and me what had happened that led up to that genocide back years ago in which 1 million people were hacked to death with machetes because of the enmity and hatred between two tribes, where people didn't think of themselves as Rwandan, they thought of themselves as Hutu or Tutsi. And that enmity, that rivalry turned into hatred, and the hatred was spurred on by hate-talk over the airwaves. So we know about that sad chapter of two peoples who did unimaginable things, and here we see this continues. I am reminded--because it is emblazoned in my mind's eye--of three decades ago and looking out the window of our spacecraft back at Earth. From that perspective, when you look back at Earth, which is so beautiful and so colorful, so creative as it is suspended in the middle of nothing, you don't see racial divisions, you don't see religious divisions, and you don't see ethnic divisions. What you see is this beautiful creation. My mind's eye carries that view constantly and that reminder that we are all in this together.…”