There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.

All I have I would have given gladly not to be standing here today.

The American Indian, once proud and free, is torn now between White and tribal values; between the politics and language of the White man and his own historic culture. His problems, sharpened by years of defeat and exploitation, neglect and inadequate effort, will take many years to overcome.

If the American people don't love me, their descendants will.

The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.

Doing the right thing is not the problem. Knowing what the right thing is, that's the challenge.

When I was a boy we didn't wake up with Vietnam and have Cyprus for lunch and the Congo for dinner.