Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action. If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self-forged chains.

If the national security is involved, anything goes. There are no rules. There are people so lacking in roots about what is properand what is improper that they don't know there's anything wrong in breaking into the headquarters of the opposition party.

There is no danger is letting people have their say. ... There is a danger when you try to stop them from saying it.

If you tell me that there are obstacles in the way of your ambition that make it impossible to pursue, then I know it's not a real ambition. There are always obstacles. The 'perversity of events,' as someone once called it, is always ready to lick us. Events are never right for achieving what we most want to achieve. If this were not so, there would be no real fun in being 17 -- or even in being alive.

if we pursue the arms race no other problem will be solved.

Politicians aren't any more wicked than other citizens but the situation in which they are placed warps their judgment.

The first step toward liberation of any group is to use the power in hand... And the power in hand is the vote.