To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.

You know there is no one in the world I would rather sleep with than Yuki.

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.

A few years make such havoc in human generations that we soon see ourselves deprived of those with whom we entered the world, and whom the participation of pleasures or fatigues had endeared to our remembrance.

[The United States and Israel] share many common objectives ... chief of which is the building of a better world in which every nation can develop its resources and develop them in freedom and peace.

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

I cannot say and no man could say that no more will be asked of us.