In comparison with other men of their time, the Americans were distinguished by the possession of new political and social ideas, which were destined to be the foundation of the American commonwealth.

Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.

There are no original ideas. There are only original people.

You get ideas from other people all the time.

A lot of the things that we've been able to do in the last several years were Democratic ideas, including the structure for this new director of national intelligence.

A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.

Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not.

A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.

A technical solution may be defined as one that requires a change only in the techniques of the natural sciences, demanding little or nothing in the way of change in human values or ideas of morality.

I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.

I'm not saying my idea is the one and only idea. We should have other ideas, but the president has not laid down a specific plan as to how he's going to get us to solvency. I do that.

As the middle begins to feel safe enough to accept some of the so-called radical thinking, ideas move to the middle and a new edge is created.

Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail.

In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.

The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.