My philosophy has always been that benefits should percolate up rather than trickle down.

A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.

There is in every American, I think, something of the old Daniel Boone - who, when he could see the smoke from another chimney, felt himself too crowded and moved further out into the wilderness.

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

We will have to decide today whether we will design the future or resign ourselves to it.

I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known.

Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.