What we need in the United States is not division; what we need in the United States is not hatred; what we need in the United States is not violence or lawlessness; but love and wisdom, and compassion toward one another, and a feeling of justice toward those who still suffer within our country, whether they be white or they be black.

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

In Massachusetts they [Democratic politicians] steal, in California they feud, and in New York they lie.

...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.

Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change.

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.

We know that if one man's rights are denied, the rights of all are endangered.