When the dignity of one person is denied, all of us are denied..

The President has only 190 million bosses. The Vice President has 190 million and one..

Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new..

To err is human. To blame someone else is politics..

In this time of national crises...per haps we would do well to spend a few minutes in considering projects which grace and embellish the earth, inste….

It is not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left..

Here we are the way politics ought to be in America; the politics of happiness, the politics of purpose and the politics of joy..

There is no such thing as an acceptable level of unemployment, because hunger is not acceptable, poverty is not acceptable, poor health is not accept….

The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously..

What we need are critical lovers of America - patriots who express their faith in their country by working to improve it..

For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to br….

My friends, to those who say that we are rushing this issue of civil rights, I say to them we are 172 years late. To those who say that this civil-ri….

A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office..

What do we want for people? Human dignity, personal expression and fulfillment, justice, freedom..

Behind every successful man is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law..

The ugliness of bigotry stands in direct contradiction to the very meaning of America..

We cannot use a double standard for measuring our own and other people's policies. Our demands for democratic practices in other lands will be no mor….

The Senate is a place filled with goodwill and good intentions, and if the road to hell is paved with them, then it's a pretty good detour..

More progress results from the violent execution of an imperfect plan than the perfection of a plan to violently execute..

Today we know that World War II began not in 1939 or 1941 but in the 1920's and 1930's when those who should have known better persuaded themselves t….

The moral test of a society is how that society treats those who are in the dawn of life: the children; ... the elderly..