What you do, what each of us does, has an effect on the country, the state, the nation, and the world.

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?

This, then, is the test we must set for ourselves; not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.

Foreign policy is really domestic policy with its hat on.

Our opposition will never understand the Democratic Party. Our Party is--to the unpracticed eyes of the old Republican Tories--a mysterious contraption that usually seems to be moving in a thousand directions. What they don't know is what hurts them. For all that movement in the Democratic Party is caused by the internal combustion of creative ferment, of ideas, of people vigorously committed to the proposition that change and social progress are not only to be desired; they are necessities of twentieth-century America.

Surely anyone who has ever been elected to public office understands that one commodity above all others, namely the trust and confidence of the people, is fundamental in maintaining a free and open political system.

Here we are the way politics ought to be in America; the politics of happiness, the politics of purpose and the politics of joy.