It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing.

There is a sense in which the United States Ambassador speaks to the United States, as well as for the United States. I have always seen my role as a thermostat, rather than a thermometer. So I'm going to be actively working... for my own concerns. I have always had people advise me on what to say, but never on what not to say.

The Soviet Union is going to have a human-rights explosion. You'll have hundreds of thousands of dissidents.

If you're a preacher, you talk for a living, so even if you don't make sense, you learn to make nonsense eloquently.

If I wanted to develop a scenario to destroy America, I would do what the Republicans are doing. Take the brightest and best young black men off the streets, put them in jail, make them meaner than hell for 8 or 10 years and then turn them lose in a society where there are plenty of guns for them to play with.

It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing.

For most of the world, civil and political rights... come as luxuries that are far away in the future.