Democracy is not a mathematical deduction proved once and for all time. Democracy is a just faith fervently held, commitment to be tested again and again in the fiery furnace of history.

Councils of war breed timidity and defeatism.

I have come to think that capital punishment should be abolished.

We are going to make sure that America is open to legal immigration because that is wealth and the talent and the entrepreneurial skills for the 21st Century.

... giving tax incentives for more labor ownership of company stock will do more to create jobs and increase productivity than all the "emergency full employment" bills proposed.

Conservatives define compassion not by the number of people who recieve some kind of government aid but rather by the number of people who no longer need it.

There really has not been a strong Republican message to either the poor or the African American community at large.