The rising tide lifts all the boats.

We cannot be satisfied with things as they are. We cannot be satisfied to drift, to rest on our oars, to glide over a sea whose depths are shaken by subterranean upheavals.

And is not peace, in the last analysis, basically a matter of human rights -- the right to live out our lives without fear of devastation – the right to breathe air as nature provided it -- the right of future generations to a healthy existence?" (John F. Kennedy, June 10, 1963, American University speech)

A boy spends his time finding a girl to sleep with. A real man spends his time looking for the one worth waking up to.

The state is the servant of the citizen, and not his master.

I can evade questions without help; what I need is answers

We don't want to be like the leader in the French Revolution who said There go my people, I must find out where they are going so I can lead them.