There is a lot of difference between failure and defeat. Failure is when you are defeated and neither learn nor contribute anything.

The Senate is a place filled with goodwill and good intentions, and if the road to hell is paved with them, then it's a pretty good detour.

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.

We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

The leadership for civil rights has to take place in the White House or it is going to take place in the streets.

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!

Our greatest songs are still unsung.