Never let us confuse what is legal with what is right. Everything Hitler did in Nazi Germany was legal, but it was not right.

Learn to be quiet enough to hear the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in others.

Children cannot eat rhetoric and they cannot be sheltered by commissions. I don't want to see another commission that studies the needs of kids. We need to help them.

You didn't have a choice about the parents you inherited, but you do have a choice about the kind of parent you will be.

So much of America's tragic and costly failure to care for all its children stems from our tendency to distinguish between our own children and other people's children--as if justice were divisible.

Democracy cannot breathe, indeed will die, if those enjoined to protect it and uphold the laws snuff it out - with no consequences.

Whoever said anybody has a right to give up?