Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

There is a great deal of difference between living and surviving. You can survive in debauchery, even in sickness and despair. But you live with a spirit of vitality and a spirit of participation, of being wanted, and having something to contribute.

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?

We will be remembered not for the power of our weapons but for the power of our compassion, our dedication to human welfare.

This is the first generation in all of recorded history that can do something about the scourge of poverty. We have the means to do it. We can banish hunger from the face of the earth.

You can't hoot with the owls and then soar with the eagles

Foreign policy is really domestic policy with its hat on.