The history of the labor movement needs to be taught in every school in this land. America is a living testimonial to what free men and women, organized in free democratic trade unions can do to make a better life. We ought to be proud of it!

Surely anyone who has ever been elected to public office understands that one commodity above all others, namely the trust and confidence of the people, is fundamental in maintaining a free and open political system.

You cannot tell a poor boy from a small country town on the plains of South Dakota who has had the opportunity to be a teacher, a mayor, a senator, and a vice president, that America is not a nation of promise.

What you do, what each of us does, has an effect on the country, the state, the nation, and the world.

There are incalculable resources in the human spirit, once it has been set free.

We need an America with the wisdom of experience. But we must not let America grow old in spirit.

A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.