Behind every successful man is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law.

This is the first generation in all of recorded history that can do something about the scourge of poverty. We have the means to do it. We can banish hunger from the face of the earth.

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

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

I do not feel that we should allow a shortage of funds to prevent cities from financing needed projects.

The right of citizens to bear arms is just one guarantee against arbitrary government, one more safeguard against the tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible.

Until racial justice and freedom is a reality in this land, our union will remain profoundly imperfect.