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

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

Before people will do anything, they have got to eat. And if you are really looking for a way for people to lean on you and to be dependent on you, in terms of their cooperation with you, it seems to me that food dependence would be terrific.

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

Our greatest songs are still unsung.

The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.

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.