Education is a precondition to survival in America today.

Somehow we are going to have to develop a concept of enough for those at the top and at the bottom so that the necessities of the many are not sacrificed for the luxuries of the few.

Service is the rent we pay for living.

We do not have a money problem in America. We have a values and priorities problem.

Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.

I try to be a person of faith.

Unless children have strong education and strong families and strong communities and decent housing, it's not enough to go sit in at a lunch counter.