You can always debate about what you should have done. The question is what are you going to do?

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

You can always debate about what you should have done. The question is what are you going to do?

We cannot use a double standard for measuring our own and other people's policies. Our demands for democratic practices in other lands will be no more effective than the guarantees of those practiced in our own country.

It is always a risk to speak to the press: they are likely to report what you say.

The right of citizens to bear arms is just one guarantee against arbitrary government, one more safeguard against the tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible.

Peace is not passive, it is active. Peace is not appeasement, it is strength. Peace does not 'happen,' it requires work.