We are a people in a quandary about the present. We are a people in search of our future. We are a people in search of a national community.

...we must face the fact that unilateral action on the part of the United States will never be enough to stop illegal immigration. Immigrants come here illegally from source countries where conditions prevail that encourage or even compel them to leave. Attacking the causes of illegal migration is essential and will require international cooperation.

I believe that women have a capacity for understanding and compassion which a man structurally does not have, does not have it because he cannot have it. He's just incapable of it.

But this is the great danger America faces. That we will cease to be one nation and become instead a collection of interest groups: city against suburb, region against region, individual against individual. Each seeking to satisfy private wants.

We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.

The imperative is to define what is right and do it.

Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.