Before people will do anything, they have got to eat. And if you are really looking for a way for people to lean on you and to be dependent on you, in terms of their cooperation with you, it seems to me that food dependence would be terrific.

It is not enough to merely defend democracy. To defend it may be to lose it; to extend it is to strengthen it. Democracy is not property; it is an idea.

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

The gap between the rich and the poor is the most dangerous threat to world peace we have.

Much of our American progress has been the product of the individual who had an idea; pursued it; fashioned it; tenaciously clung to it against all odds; and then produced it, sold it, and profited from it.

Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.

I am absolutely disgusted that anyone would put thousands of America's boys at risk just to win a Political Campaign.