He that in the latter part of his life too strictly inquires what he has done, can very seldom receive from his own heart such an account as will give him satisfaction.

I am making a collection of the things my opponents have found me to be and, when this election is over, I am going to open a museum and put them on display.

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

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

You do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring him up to the starting line of a race and then say, "you are free to compete with all the others," and still justly believe that you have been completely fair. We seek not just legal equity but human ability, not just equality as a right and a theory but equality as a fact and equality as a result.

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