The difference between hearsay and prophecy is often one of sequence. Hearsay often turns out to have been prophecy.

For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end.

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

When people generally are aware of a problem, it can be said to have entered the public consciousness. When people get on their hind legs and holler, the problem has not only entered the public consciousness -- it has also become a part of the public conscience. At that point, things in our democracy begin to hum.

Here we are the way politics ought to be in America; the politics of happiness, the politics of purpose and the politics of joy.

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.

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