As we maintain the vigil of peace, we must remember that justice is a vigil, too - a vigil we must keep in our own streets and schools and among the lives of all our people - so that those who died here on their native soil shall not have died in vain.

I wake up 5 a.m. some mornings and hear the planes coming in at National Airport and I think they are bombing me.

We cannot have government for all the people until we first make certain it is government of and by all the people.

In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.

I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad: that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength; our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America.

Never make a speech at a country dance or a football game.

The Secretary of Labor is in charge of finding you a job, the Secretary of the Treasury is in charge of taking half the money you make away from you, and the Attorney General is in charge of suing you for the other half.