A good leader can't get too far ahead of his followers.

A Liberal is a man who uses his legs and his hands at the behest-at the command-of his head.

We cannot always build a future for our youth, but we can always build our youth for the future.

All that is within me cries out to go back to my home on the Hudson River

Of course we believe these things. We believe in social security. We believe in work for the unemployed. We believe in saving homes. Cross our hearts and hope to die! We believe in all these things. But we do not like the way that the present administration is doing them. Just turn them over to us. We will do all of them, we will do more of them, we will do them better and, most important of all, the doing of them will not cost anybody anything!

To reach a port, we must sail - sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift.

Democracy, the practice of self-government, is a covenant among free men to respect the rights and liberties of their fellows.