Some men see what is, and ask 'Why?' I see what might be, and ask 'Why Not?'

Too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things.

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

The road toward equality of freedom is not easy, and great cost and danger march alongside us. We are committed to peaceful and nonviolent change, and that is important for all to understand - though all change is unsettling. Still, even in the turbulence of protest and struggle is greater hope for the future, as men learn to claim and achieve for themselves the rights formerly petitioned from others.

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

I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil. Government belongs wherever evil needs an adversary and there are people in distress.

Men without hope, resigned to despair and oppression, do not make revolutions. It is when expectation replaces submission, when despair is touched with the awareness of possibility, that the forces of human desire and the passion for justice are unloosed.