Truth is a tyrant-the only tyrant to whom we can give our allegiance. The service of truth is a matter of heroism.

Any system of government will work when everything is going well. It's the system that functions in the pinches that survive

Our alliance is born, not of fear, but of hope. It is an alliance that advances what we are for, as well as opposes what we are against.

I know few significant questions of public policy which can safely be confided to computers. In the end, the hard decisions inescapably involve imponderables of intuition, prudence, and judgment.

I do not speak for my church on public matters; and the church does not speak for me.

There is something that happens when we leave the land and enter the ocean. It's unexpected, the environment feels strangely welcoming. The ocean almost feels like... home.

The weapons of war must be abolished before they abolish us.