We can drift along as though there were still a cold war, wasting hundreds of billions of dollars on weapons that will never be used, ignoring the problems of people in this country and around the world, being one of the worst environmental violators on earth, standing against any sort of viable programs to protect the world's forests or to cut down on acid rain or the global warming or ozone depletion. We can ignore human rights violations in other countries, or we can take these things on as true leaders ought to and accept the inspiring challenge of America for the future.

I'm a peanut farmer at heart, still grow peanuts on my farm in Georgia.

The greatest discrimination in the world now is against poor people.

Each of us must rededicate ourselves to serving the common good. We are a community. Our individual Fates are linked; our futures intertwined; and if we act in that knowledge and in that spirit together, as the Bible says: "We can move mountains."

My position has always been, along with many other people, that any differences be resolved in a nonviolent way.

We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.

God wisely designed the human body so that we can neither pat our own backs nor kick ourselves too easily.