It doesn't do any good to hold the door open for someone if they don't have a way to walk through it. And if they do have a way to pass through it then you probably don't need to hold it open because they can open it for themselves.

Freedom is the right to question and change the established way of doing things. It is the continuing revolution of the marketplace. It is the understanding that allows us to recognize shortcomings and seek solutions. It is the right to put forth an idea, scoffed at by the experts, and watch it catch fire among the people. It is the right to follow your dream, or stick to your conscience even if you're the only one in a sea of doubters.

When I've heard all I need to make a decision, I don't take a vote. I make a decision.

Christmas is a holiday that we celebrate not as individuals nor as a nation, but as a human family.

Bobby Kennedy is so concerned with poverty because he didn't have any as a kid.

Like the genocide of the Armenians before it, and the genocide of the Cambodians which followed it ... the lessons of the Holocaust must never be forgotten.

I have a feeling that we are doing better in the war than the people have been told.