If I believe in something, I will fight for it, with all I have. But I do not demand all or nothing. I would rather get something than nothing.

The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

Just be what you are and speak from your guts and heart - it's all a person has.

My friends, to those who say that we are rushing this issue of civil rights, I say to them we are 172 years late. To those who say that this civil-rights program is an infringement on states’ rights, I say this: The time has arrived in America for the Democratic Party to get out of the shadow of states' rights and to walk forthrightly into the bright sunshine of human rights.

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

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

Asia is rich in people, rich in culture and rich in resources. It is also rich in trouble.