I have faith in young people because I know the strongest emotions which prevail are those of love and caring and belief and tolerance.

Let there be no illusions about the difficulty of forming this kind of a national community. It's tough, difficult, not easy. But a spirit of harmony will survive in America only if each of us remembers that we share a common destiny.

A government is invigorated when each of us is willing to participate in shaping the future of this nation.

If you had to work in the environment of Washington, D.C., as I do, and watch those men who are so imprisoned and so confined by their eighteenth-century thought patterns, you would know that if anybody is going to be liberated, it's men who must be liberated in this country.

What the people want is very simple - they want an America as good as its promise.

The majority of the American people still believe that every single individual in this country is entitled to just as much respect, just as much dignity, as every other individual.

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