We will have to decide today whether we will design the future or resign ourselves to it.

The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

The measure of a civilization is how it treats those at the dawn of life, the margins of life and the twilight of life.

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.

The pursuit of peace resembles the building of a great cathedral. It is the work of a generation. In concept it requires a mater-architect; in execution, the labors of many.

Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.

The time has arrived in America for the Democratic Party to get out of the shadows of states rights and walk forthrightly into the bright sunshine of human rights