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.

Profit and morality are a hard combination to beat.

The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.

Life's unfairness is not irrevocable; we can help balance the scales for others, if not always for ourselves.

Equality means equality for all - no exceptions, no 'yes, buts', no asterisked footnotes imposing limits.

It is not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left.

And it is to these rights - the right of law and order, the right of life, the right of liberty, the right of a job, the right of a home in a decent neighborhood, and the right to an education - it is to these rights that I pledge my life and whatever capacity and ability I have.