In our times, significantly, the three outstanding voices against violence have been silenced by murder - Mahatma Gandhi in India, Archbishop Romero in El Salvador, and Dr. Martin Luther King, here at home.

If there is one thing the past years have taught us, it is the importance of a keen and high sense of honor in those who handle our governmental affairs.

The business of government is justice.

We simply cannot continue to live with a [tax] system which has so many inequities. It must be changed in such a way that each of us pays a fair share of the burden. It has been said that one man's loophole is another man's livelihood. Even if this is true, it certainly is not fair, because the loophole-livelihood of those who are reaping undeserved benefits can be the economic noose of those who are paying more than they should.

Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.

You may never reach a solution, but you're never absolved from the responsibility of trying.

Party organization matters. When the door of a smoke-filled room is closed, there's hardly ever a woman inside.