The Senate is a place filled with goodwill and good intentions, and if the road to hell is paved with them, then it's a pretty good detour.

We need an America with the wisdom of experience. But we must not let America grow old in spirit.

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

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.

Like many things in our national life, we miscalculated. We overestimated our ability to control events, which is one of the great dangers of a great power. Power tends to be a substitute for judgment and wisdom.

Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.

Propaganda, to be effective, must be believed. To be believed, it must be credible. To be credible, it must be true.