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

Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.

What do we want for people? Human dignity, personal expression and fulfillment, justice, freedom.

And it is to these rights - the right of law and order, the right of life, the right of liberty, the right of a job, the right of a home in a decent neighborhood, and the right to an education - it is to these rights that I pledge my life and whatever capacity and ability I have.

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

I am absolutely disgusted that anyone would put thousands of America's boys at risk just to win a Political Campaign.

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.