Fairness is an across-the-board requirement for all our interactions with each other ...Fairness treats everbody the same.

We are a people trying not only to solve the problems of the present: unemployment, inflation... but we are attempting on a larger scale to fulfill the promise of America.

When do any of us ever do enough?

The arts, instead of quaking along the periphery of our policy concerns, must push boldly into the core of policy. The arts are a response to our individuality and our nature and help to shape our identity. The arts are not a frill and should not be treated as such. They have the potential to become the driving force for healing division and divisiveness.

If the society today allows wrongs to go unchallenged, the impression is created that those wrongs have the approval of the majority.

What we have to do is strike a balance between the idea that government should do everything and the idea, the belief, that government ought to do nothing. Strike a balance.

The earth is bread we take and eat.