You have given me a great responsibility: to stay close to you, to be worthy of you and to exemplify what you are.

A joyous occasion is never quite as wonderful as when it becomes a memory.

But love must be aggressively translated into simple justice.

Every advance in this half-century-Social Security, civil rights, Medicare, aid to education, one after another-came with the support and leadership of American Labor.

My proudest accomplishment was that I never dropped a bomb, fired a bullet, or shot a missile.

The heartfelt sympathy and friendship offered to America after the 9/11 attacks, even from formerly antagonistic regimes, has been largely dissipated; increasingly unilateral and domineering policies have brought international trust in our country to its lowest level in memory.

I think the most challenging thing for me in my life and in the Bible is that we worship Jesus as the Prince of Peace. And America is constantly at war.