There are not enough jails, not enough police, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people.

Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

There can be no compromise on the right of personal security; there can be no compromise on securing of human rights.

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

I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known.

There is no such thing as an acceptable level of unemployment, because hunger is not acceptable, poverty is not acceptable, poor health is not acceptable, and a ruined life is not acceptable.

I learned more about the economy from one South Dakota dust storm that I did in all my years of college.