What do we want for people? Human dignity, personal expression and fulfillment, justice, freedom.

Behind every successful man is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law.

Slumism is the pent-up anger of people living on the outside of affluence. Slumism is decay of structure and deterioration of the human spirit. Slumism is a virus which spreads through the body politic. As other "isms," it breeds disorder and demagoguery and hate.

You cannot tell a poor boy from a small country town on the plains of South Dakota who has had the opportunity to be a teacher, a mayor, a senator, and a vice president, that America is not a nation of promise.

I believe that each of us can make a difference. That what is wrong can be made right. That people possess the basic wisdom and goodness to govern themselves without conflict.

Equality means equality for all - no exceptions, no 'yes, buts', no asterisked footnotes imposing limits.

A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.