To be good Americans, we must be better Jews, and to be better Jews, we must become Zionists.

Nearly all legislation involves a weighing of public needs as against private desires; and likewise a weighing of relative social values.

Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.

Anyone who critically analyzes a business learns this: that the success or failure of an enterprise depends usually upon one man.

I used to oppose women's suffrage and I've come to support it because these women have convinced me that we need full gender equality for full democratic participation.

We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.

What I have desired to do is to make the people of Boston realize that the most important office, and the one which all of us can and should fill, is that of private citizen.