I see the face of a child. He lives in a great city. He is black. Or he is white. He is Mexican, Italian, Polish. None of that matters. What matters, he's an American child.

By taking this action, I hope that I will have hastened the start of the healing.

To the ordinary guy, all this is a bunch of gobbledygook. But out of the gobbledygook comes a very clear thing: you can't trust the government, you can't believe what they say, and you can't rely on their judgment.

You don't know how to lie. If you can't lie, you'll never go anywhere.

I'm glad I'm not Brezhnev. Being the Russian leader in the Kremlin. You never know if someone's tape recording what you say.

Let us build bridges, my friends, build bridges to human dignity across that gulf that separates black America from white America.

Castro couldn't even go to the bathroom unless the Soviet Union put the nickel in the toilet.