There's no doubt that usually a president's public image is enhanced by going to war. That never did appeal to me.

I am no big shot. I am not anybody's boss. I want to be everybody's servant.

There's no way to have a peace agreement unless the mediator or negotiator looks at both sides from an equal basis.

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.

The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.

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.

I have a great deal of confidence in myself and in my faith.