The gross national product includes air pollution and advertising for cigarettes, and ambulances to clear our highways of carnage. It counts special locks for our doors, and jails for the people who break them ... It does not allow for the health of our families, the quality of thier education, or the joy of their play.

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

It is the essence of responsibility to put the public good ahead of personal gain

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

The enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and abiding practice of any western society.

It is from the numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. 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, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

I dream of things that are not and ask why not.