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

There is a lot of difference between failure and defeat. Failure is when you are defeated and neither learn nor contribute anything.

In the minds and hearts of the American people, there is a great hunger for peace based on a universal recognition of the values of freedom and human dignity.

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, instead of shaking it.

The leadership for civil rights has to take place in the White House or it is going to take place in the streets.

You cannot tell a poor boy from a small country town on the plains of South Dakota who has had the opportunity to be a teacher, a mayor, a senator, and a vice president, that America is not a nation of promise.