America has to ask itself not what it wants, but what it can afford.

A nation has its first obligation to its own workers and its own poor.

Peace is neither the absence of war nor the presence of a disarmament agreement. Peace is a change of heart.

I feel very strongly that the Democratic Party has, in the past, been the party of the future. I think when you look at Social Security and Medicare, when you look at the civil rights movement, the women's movement, I think the Democratic Party has always been in the forefront of change.

I think modern societies have to ask a very basic question: What strategies buy the most health for people? Doctors can do so many marvelous things now. They can keep a corpse alive, almost.

Politics is a love-hate relationship. I sure know that.

I believe we all must face the fact of death. It is both gift and curse.