Foreign policy is really domestic policy with its hat on.

It is all too easy for a society to measure itself against some abstract philosophical principle or political slogan. But in the end, there must remain the question: What kind of life is one society providing to the people that live in it?

My philosophy has always been that benefits should percolate up rather than trickle down.

You can always debate about what you should have done. The question is what are you going to do?

We will be remembered not for the power of our weapons but for the power of our compassion, our dedication to human welfare.

It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.

Profit and morality are a hard combination to beat.