Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet.

We have some of the most influential Members of Congress here today, and I do hope that we can get this appropriation for these day-care centers, which seems to me to be money very wisely spent, and also under consideration of the tax bill, that we can consider the needs of the working mothers, and both of these will be very helpful, and I would like to lobby in their behalf.

There is a connection, hard to explain logically but easy to feel, between achievement in public life and progress in the arts.

You never know what's hit you. A gunshot is the perfect way.

All my life Ive known better than to depend on the experts. How could I have been so stupid, to let them go ahead?

If by a "Liberal," they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people - their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, and their civil liberties - someone who believes that we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a "Liberal," then I'm proud to say that I'm a "Liberal."

The complacent, the self-indulgent, the soft societies are about to be swept away with the debris of history.