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

The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.

Foreign policy is really domestic policy with its hat on.

Liberalism, above all, means emancipation - emancipation from one's fears, his inadequacies, from prejudice, from discrimination, from poverty.

The way we treat our children in the dawn of their lives and the way we treat our elderly in the twilight of their lives is a measure of the quality of a nation.

When people generally are aware of a problem, it can be said to have entered the public consciousness. When people get on their hind legs and holler, the problem has not only entered the public consciousness -- it has also become a part of the public conscience. At that point, things in our democracy begin to hum.

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