The basis of effective government is public confidence, and that confidence is endangered when ethical standards falter or appear to falter.

A rising tide (in the economy) lifts all boats.

Most cities are nouns. New York's a verb.

No sane society chooses to commit national suicide.

American history is not something dead and over. It is always alive,always growing, always unfinished.

Real men stay faithful. They don't have time to look for other women because they're too busy looking for new ways to love their own.

One hundred years of delay have passed since President Lincoln freed the slaves, yet their heirs, their grandsons, are not fully free. They are not yet freed from the bonds of injustice. They are not yet freed from social and economic oppression. And this nation, for all its hopes and all its boasts, will not be fully free until all its citizens are free.