I've never thought my speeches were too long; I've rather enjoyed them.
Foreign policy is really domestic policy with its hat on.
It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.
Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.
Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.
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.