It is the excitement of becoming - always becoming, trying, probing, falling, resting, and trying again- but always trying and always gaining

A good president does with executive power what Pablo Picasso did with paint. He takes bills into new and slightly discomfiting territory. He puts extra eyes on policies. He moves the mouth of the Supreme Court from where it should be to where it must be.

This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.

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

No member of our generation who wasn't a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.

Let us close the springs of racial poison. Let us pray for wise and understanding hearts. Let us lay aside irrelevant differences and make our nation whole.

The future holds little hope for any government where the present holds no hope for the people.