GNP measures neither our courage, our wisdom neither our compassion. It measures everything except what makes life worthwhile

I love this city. If I am elected, I'll move the White House to San Francisco. Everybody's so friendly.

It is not more bigness that should be our goal. We must attempt, rather, to bring people back to...the warmth of community, to the worth of individual effort and responsibility...and of individuals working together as a community, to better their lives and their children's future.

Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.

I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive.

Some believe there is nothing one man or one woman can do against the enormous array of the world’s ills... Yet many of the world’s great movements, of thought and action, have flowed from the work of a single man

Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.