Our values are not luxuries, but necessities. They are not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself.

Go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is.

In many courts, plea bargaining serves the convenience of the judge and the lawyers, not the ends of justice, because the courts simply lack the time to give everyone a fair trial.

Our individual fates are linked our futures intertwined

The abuse of women and girls is the most pervasive and unaddressed human right violation on earth.

I believe strongly that in the eyes of God women and men should be the same and they should be given the same authority in the church, women should as men.

In the year 2000, the solar water heater behind me, which is being dedicated today, will still be here supplying cheap, efficient energy. A generation from now, this solar heater can either be a curiosity, a museum piece, an example of a road not taken, or it can be just a small part of one of the greatest and most exciting adventures ever undertaken by the American people: harnessing the power of the Sun to enrich our lives as we move away from our crippling dependence on foreign oil.