So much of the deep lingering sadness over President Kennedy's assassination is about the unfinished promise: unspoken speeches, unfulfilled hopes, the wondering about what might have been.

People who don't vote have no call on political leaders!

Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts.

I hadn't planned on going to law school. I wanted to study 19th-century Russian literature.

If it's wrong for 13-year-old inner-city girls to have babies without the benefit of marriage, it's wrong for rich celebrities, and we ought to stop putting them on the cover of People magazine.

Children teach us to be courageous and to stand up against injustice.

I'd like to transform the system in very fundamental ways, but you've got to do that in every way that you can. You can't wait for some magic bullet or some magic politician or some magic anything to have that happen. You got to get out there and use your vote.