Many kids come out of college, they have a credit card and a diploma. They don't know how to buy a house or a car or health insurance or life insurance. They do not know basic microeconomics.

To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. Your children need your presence more than your presents.

We campaigned across the South . . . without a single catcall or boo. It was not until we got north to New York that we began to hear this from Koch, President Reagan, and then Mrs. Ferraro . . . . Some people are making hysteria while I'm making history.

I have worked hard to build relationships between Jewish people and black people.

When blacks are unemployed, they are considered lazy and apathetic. When whites are unemployed, it's considered a depression.

Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.

Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.