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.

The American city should be a collection of communities where every member has a right to belong. It should be a place where every man feels safe on his streets and in the house of his friends.

The law cannot save those who deny it but neither can the law serve any who do not use it. The history of injustice and inequality is a history of disuse of the law.

Curtis Le May wants to bomb Hanoi and Haiphong. You know how he likes to go around bombing.

The classroom - not the trench - is the frontier of freedom now and forevermore.

I feel like I just grabbed a big juicy worm with a right sharp hook in the middle of it.

I want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women.