The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.

It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.

We must reverse this psychology (of needing guns for home defense). WE can do it by passing a law that says anyone found in possession a handgun except a legitimate officer of the law goes to jail-period!

The library is the temple of learning.

A minority group has 'arrived' only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it.

My advice to any diplomat who wants to have good press is to have two or three kids and a dog.

The Reagan Administration has fostered a climate in which a barest majority of the Supreme Court caters to the passions and hatreds of the American mob, stripping away the constitutional shield outside our bedrooms.... How tragically ironic that an Administration that promised to get Government "off our backs" is now so active in draping Government gumshoes over every part of our anatomies.