The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.

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

We live by hope. We do not ever get all we want when we want it. But we have to believe that someday, somehow, some way, it will be better and that we can make it so.

I've never thought my speeches were too long; I've rather enjoyed them.

Life's unfairness is not irrevocable; we can help balance the scales for others, if not always for ourselves.

Fortunately, the time has long passed when people liked to regard the United States as some kind of melting pot, taking men and women from every part of the world and converting them into standardized, homogenized Americans. We are, I think, much more mature and wise today. Just as we welcome a world of diversity, so we glory in an America of diversity -- an America all the richer for the many different and distinctive strands of which it is woven.

Propaganda, to be effective, must be believed. To be believed, it must be credible. To be credible, it must be true.