I judge people by their own principles..not by my own

The labor movement was the principal force that transforme­d misery and despair into hope and progress.

I oppose the war in Vietnam because I love America. I speak out against it not in anger but with anxiety and sorrow in my heart, and above all with a passionate desire to see our beloved country stand as a moral example of the world.

There is nothing new about poverty. What is new, however, is that we have the resources to get rid of it.

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

Power is the ability to achieve purpose.

A woman can have a smile, and a woman can have a large backside, but I have been to the mountain and I am here to tell you that when a woman has both of those things she is not to be trusted.