We are at a crossroads over how the federal government in Washington and state legislatures and city councils across the land allocate their financial resources. Which fork we take will say a lot about Americans and our values.

No man should advocate a course in private that he's ashamed to admit in public.

I hope I live long enough to see every hungry school child in the world being fed under the so-called McGovern-Dole program.

When you start one of these programs, school lunch programs, in a country that heretofore had nothing of that kind, immediately school enrollment jumps dramatically. Girls and boys get to the classroom with the promise of a good meal once a day.

Democrats believe that the federal government is not our enemy, it's our partner.

And this is the time. It is the time for this land to become again a witness to the world for what is noble and just in human affairs. It is the time to live more with faith and less with fear- with an abiding confidence that can sweep away the strongest barriers between us and teach us that we truly are brothers and sisters.

Under the guise of protecting us from ourselves, the right and the left are becoming ever more aggressive in regulating behavior.