Government can provide opportunity. But opportunity means nothing unless people are prepared to seize it.

What we have done with the American Indian is its way as bad as what we imposed on the Negroes. We took a proud and independent race and virtually destroyed them. We have to find ways to bring them back into decent lives in this country.

Your mind must always go, even while you're shaking hands and going through all the maneuvers. I developed the ability long ago to do one thing while thinking about another.

Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.

Extremists on the left tend to be just as critical of pragmatism as extremists on the right.

Until he has been part of a cause larger than himself, no man is truly whole.

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.