Some people have theorized that I lurched to prove myself intellectually. But it was not any lurch. It was more a kind of awakening.

We want peace with all our hearts. But peace cannot be achieved through weakness.

Republicans many times can't get the words 'equality of opportunity' out of their mouths. Their lips do not form that way.

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.

Economic growth doesn't mean anything if it leaves people out.

Taxes on capital, taxes on labor, inflation, bureaucratic regulation, minimum wage laws, are all - to different degrees - unnecessary slices of the wedge that stand between an individual's effort and reward for that effort.

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