Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.

The [next] priority for change the first element of a new politics for the United States is in our policy toward the world. Too much and for too long, we have acted as if our great military might and wealth could bring about an American solution to every world problem.

After all, a bank without assets is hardly a bank at all.

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

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

Our future may lie beyond our vision, but it is not completely beyond our control. It is the shaping impulse of America that neither fate nor nature nor the irresistible tides of history, but the work of our own hands, matched to reason and principle.

...if we want to meet the obligations of our civilization and our culture which are to create communities for our children that provide them with the same opportunities for dignity and enrichment as the communities that our parents gave us, we've got to start by protecting that infrastructure; the air that we breathe, the water that we drink, the landscapes that enrich us.