Just because we cannot see clearly te end of the road, that is no reason for not setting out on the essential journey.

I'm an idealist without illusions.

I believe in an America where religious intolerance will someday end... where every man has the same right to attend or not attend the church of his choice.

A wall is a hell of a lot better than a war.

The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capital from static to more dynamic situations, the ease or difficulty experienced by new ventures in obtaining capital, and thereby the strength and potential for growth of the economy.

The problems with this world cannot possibly be solved by sceptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need people who can dream of things that never were.

If at times our actions seem to make life difficult for others, it is only because history has made life difficult for us all.