Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

If we fail now, then we will have forgotten in abundance what we learned in hardship: that democracy rests on faith; freedom asks more than it gives; and the judgment of God is harshest on those who are most favored.

The Organization of American States couldn't pour piss out of a boot if the instructions were written on the heel.

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.

We don't propose to sit here in our rocking chair with our hands folded and let the Communists set up any government in the Western Hemisphere.

I am a freeman, an American, a United States Senator, and a Democrat, in that order.

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