The California proposition [Prop. 187] is one I would agree with. That's the easiest way to put it.

Think I'll win. Could be big.

This is not politics... it's to protect the innocence of children.

We're trying to get good pictures. Don't worry very much about what I say.

Yet when the blood of the sons of immigrants and the grandsons of slaves fell on foreign fields, it was American blood. In it you could not read the ethnic particulars of the soldier who died next to you. He was an American. And when I think of how we learned this lesson, I wonder how we could have unlearned it.

Having a disability changes your whole life, not just your attitude.

What we dedicate today is not a memorial to war, rather it's a tribute to the physical and moral courage that makes heroes out of farm and city boys and that inspires Americans in every generation to lay down their lives for people they will never meet, for ideals that make life itself worth living.