Iraq has to be made an international, and not just a national American problem.

The public life of every political figure is a continual struggle to rescue an element of choice from the pressure of circumstance.

My country's history, Mr. President, tells us that it is possible to fashion unity while cherishing diversity, that common action is possible despite the variety of races, interests, and beliefs we see here in this chamber. Progress and peace and justice are attainable. So we say to all peoples and governments: Let us fashion together a new world order.

I was always convinced that decent people in the case of Vietnam, highly intelligent, decent people, got us involved because they had made, in part, a misjudgment about the nature of the communist system and the unity of the communist world and the degree to which the experience of Europe could be repeated in Vietnam.

The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.

The capacity to admire others is not my most fully developed trait.

History knows no resting places and no plateaus