The sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country.

Every time you stand up for an ideal, you send forth a tiny ripple of hope.

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

Too often we honor swagger and bluster and the wielders of force; too often we excuse those who are willing to build their own lives on the shattered dreams of others.

Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.

I love this city. If I'm elected, I will move the White House to San Francisco. I went to Fisherman's Wharf and they even let me into Allioto`s. It may be Baghdad by the Bay to you, but to me it's Resurrection City

The future is not a gift: it is an achievement. Every generation helps make its own future. This is the essential challenge of the present