In life it isn't what you've lost, it's what you've got left that counts

It is not enough to merely defend democracy. To defend it may be to lose it; to extend it is to strengthen it. Democracy is not property; it is an idea.

Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

The President has only 190 million bosses. The Vice President has 190 million and one.

To err is human. To blame someone else is politics.

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

None of us would trade freedom of expression for the narrowness of the public censor. America is a free market for people who have something to say, and need not fear to say it.