When you're fighting for economic and social justice, you're always fighting for the minority.

The problem is you tend to look back and identify mistakes, and as a consequence of feeling terrible about mistakes you say you bungled this so bad, let's get out of here.

A hero is someone who over and over does the right thing even though no one is there to witness it.

Slow down, especially at the beginning of a speech. You'll get the audience's attention by pausing.

The cheapest gift I have to give is kindness, and it is the best.

The idea that somebody who has done something horrible in a war is not willing to talk about it for 32 years is hardly a shocking idea. Quite the contrary.

When I say be skeptical of everything I mean it. Just because someone was elected to do a job doesn't mean that person has any idea of what they're doing.