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

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.

What do we want for people? Human dignity, personal expression and fulfillment, justice, freedom.

In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.

What we need are critical lovers of America - patriots who express their faith in their country by working to improve it.

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

For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end.