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

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

Our opposition will never understand the Democratic Party. Our Party is--to the unpracticed eyes of the old Republican Tories--a mysterious contraption that usually seems to be moving in a thousand directions. What they don't know is what hurts them. For all that movement in the Democratic Party is caused by the internal combustion of creative ferment, of ideas, of people vigorously committed to the proposition that change and social progress are not only to be desired; they are necessities of twentieth-century America.

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.

Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of citizens to keep and bear arms.

Unfortunately, our affluent society has also been an effluent society.

I've never thought my speeches were too long; I've rather enjoyed them.