American society as a whole can never achieve the outer-reaches of potential, so long as it tolerates the inner cities of despair.

When people lack jobs, opportunity, and ownership of property they have little or no stake in their communities.

Quarterbacks are always ready.

The Soviet Union represents a threat in terms of might. It is a joke in terms of its economy and what it has to offer the Third World - a laughingstock to countries that are looking for an economic-development model.

I don't use labels a lot.

You cannot create employees without first creating employers.

With the end of the cold war, all the 'isms' of the 20th century - Fascism, Nazism, Communism and the evil of apartheid-ism - have failed. Except one. Only democracy has shown itself true the help of all mankind.