Persons are judged to be great because of the positive qualities they possess, not because of the absence of faults.

At the start of 2005 the idea of downloading a song to a mobile phone was an idea, by the end of the year it was a reality.

The torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans, born in this century... unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today.

We are confronted primarily with a moral issue... whether all Americans are to be afforded equal rights and equal opportunities, whether we are going to treat our fellow Americans as we want to be treated.

Be strong and of good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed.

Not every child has an equal talent or an equal ability or equal motivation, but they should have the equal right to develop their talent and their ability and their motivation, to make something of themselves.

The mere absence of war is not peace.