Decide exactly what you want to achieve. Do you want to help people, or do you want to be powerful?

Decide exactly what you want to achieve. Do you want to help people, or do you want to be powerful?

We believe in a government that is characterized by fairness and reasonableness, a reasonableness that goes beyond labels, that doesn't distort or promise to do things that we know we can't do.

Most of us have achieved levels of affluence and comfort unthought of two generations ago. We've never had it so good, most of us. Nor have we ever complained so bitterly about our problems.

Democracy is not meant to be efficient, it is meant to be fair.

The closed circle of materialism is clear to us now - aspirations become wants, wants become needs, and self-gratification becomes a bottomless pit.

People asked me what I want as an epitaph: 'He tried'