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

What we need are critical lovers of America - patriots who express their faith in their country by working to improve it.

Asia is rich in people, rich in culture and rich in resources. It is also rich in trouble.

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.

Our greatest songs are still unsung.

I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known.

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