It's a terrible and tragic and counterproductive policy to avoid communicating with people who disagree with us.

A fundamentalist can't bring himself or herself to negotiate with people who disagree with them because the negotiating process itself is an indication of implied equality.

Faith implies a continuing search, not necessarily a final answer.

This afternoon, I've arranged for this ceremony to be illuminated by solar power.

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.

I believe those passages in the New Testament, not by Jesus, but by Paul, that say women should not adorn themselves, they should always wear hats or color their hair in church - things like that - I think they are signs of the times and should not apply to modern-day life.

During the 1960s, we used twice as much oil as during the 1950s. And in each of those decades, more oil was consumed than in all of mankind's previous history.