The moral test of a society is how that society treats those who are in the dawn of life: the children; ... the elderly.

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

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.

The moral test of a society is how that society treats those who are in the dawn of life: the children; ... the elderly.

As we begin to comprehend that the earth itself is a kind of manned spaceship hurtling through the infinity of space ~ it will seem increasingly absurd that we have not better organized the life of the human family.

The Senate is a place filled with goodwill and good intentions, and if the road to hell is paved with them, then it's a pretty good detour.

American public opinion is like an ocean, it cannot be stirred by a teaspoon.