And above all, above all, honest work must be rewarded by a fair and just tax system. The tax system today does not reward hard work: it penalizes it. Inherited or invested wealth frequently multiplies itself while paying no taxes at all. But wages on the assembly line or in farming the land, these hard-earned dollars are taxed to the very last penny.

I always thought of myself as a moderate liberal, a fighter for peace and justice. I never thought of myself as being all that far out.

It's nice not to have to worry about constituents.

From secrecy and deception in high places, come home, America. From military spending so wasteful that it weakens our nation, come home, America.

Come home to the affirmation that we have a dream. Come home to the conviction that we can move our country forward. Come home to the belief that we can seek a newer world. And let us be joyful in the homecoming.

For a generation and more, the government has sought to meet our needs by multiplying its bureaucracy. Washington has taken too much in taxes from Main Street, and Main Street has received too little in return. It is not necessary to centralize power in order to solve our problems.

Politics is an act of faith; you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public.