It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.

Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life-rafts.

If any of you are secret poets, the best way to break into print is to run for the presidency.

Whatever is morally necessary must be made politically possible.

I can still smell the tear gas in the Hilton Hotel.

The difference between Carter and [Ted] Kennedy: Carter has this vague religion which he believes in strongly, while Kennedy has this strong religion which he believes in vaguely.

Let us pick up again these lost strands and weave them again into the fabric of America, sort out the music from the sounds and again respond to the trumpet and the steady drum.