Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforting platitudes too mundane to need protection.

I try to be the same person I was yesterday.

The ties that bind us are stronger than the occasional stresses that separate us.

Too often we act - ask our schools to be truant officers, our teachers to be truant officers, because we're giving them children who have, you know, they're not ready to learn. And if they're not ready to learn by the third grade, they know they're behind.

I'm absolutely sure that there are weapons of mass destruction there and the evidence will be forthcoming. We're just getting it just now.

Whenever you start-give it your best. The opportunities are there to be anything you want to be. But wanting to be someone isn't enough; dreaming about it isn't enough; thinking about it isn't enough. You've got to study for it, work for it, fight for it with all your heart and soul, because nobody is going to hand it to you.

No war on the face of the Earth is more destructive than the AIDS pandemic.