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.

Let's all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable.

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

We cannot improve on the system of government handed down to us by the founders of the Republic. There is no way to improve upon that. But what we can do is to find new ways to implement that system and realize our destiny.

Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.

I never wanted to be run of the mill.

There is no obstacle in the path of young people who are poor or members of minority groups that hard work and preparation cannot cure.