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

More progress results from the violent execution of an imperfect plan than the perfection of a plan to violently execute.

The moral test of a society is how that society treats those who are in the dawn of life: the children; ... the elderly.

The measure of a civilization is how it treats those at the dawn of life, the margins of life and the twilight of life.

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.

We will be remembered not for the power of our weapons but for the power of our compassion, our dedication to human welfare.

I learned more about the economy from one South Dakota dust storm that I did in all my years of college.