The stories of past courage... can offer hope, they can provide inspiration. But they cannot supply courage itself. For this each man must look into his own soul.

If (my grandfather) hadn't left, I'd be working over here at the Albatross Company.

Student loans have been helpful to many. But they offer neither incentive nor assistance to those students who, by reason of family or other obligations, are unable or unwilling to go deeper into debt. ... It is, moreover, only prudent economic and social policy for the public to share part of the costs of the long period of higher education for those whose development is essential to our national economic and social well-being. All of us share in the benefits - all should share in the costs.

I am the one person who can truthfully say, I got my job through the New York Times.

Freedom has many difficulties and democracy is not perfect, but we have never had to put up a wall to keep our people in.

The torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans, born in this century... unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today.

There can be no progress if people have no faith in tomorrow.