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

We live by hope. We do not ever get all we want when we want it. But we have to believe that someday, somehow, some way, it will be better and that we can make it so.

More progress results from the violent execution of an imperfect plan than the perfection of a plan to violently execute.

A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.

National isolation breeds national neurosis.

Never answer a question from a farmer.

Peace is not passive, it is active. Peace is not appeasement, it is strength. Peace does not 'happen,' it requires work.