Things which matter cost money, and we've got to spend the money if we do not want to have generations of parasites rather than generations of productive citizens.

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.

If you are dissatisfied with they way things are, then you have got to resolve to change them.

It is reason, and not passion, which must guide our deliberations, guide our debate, and guide our decision.

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.

In other times, I could stand here and give this kind of exposition on the beliefs of the Democratic Party and that would be enough. But today that is not enough. People want more.

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.