Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.

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.

I can't see that it's wrong to give him a little legal experience before he goes out to practice law.

If I had to live my life over again, I would have a different father, a different wife and a different religion.

Neither smiles nor frowns, neither good intentions nor harsh words, are a substitute for strength.

If men and women are in chains anywhere in the world, then freedom is endangered everywhere.

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."