The signs of the Vietnam War protestors said "Make Love not War!" It didn't seem to me that they were capable of either.

If we don't want to see the map of Central America covered in a sea of red, eventually lapping at our own borders, we must act now.

The joke in our family is that we can cry reading the phone book.

Our leaders must remember that education doesn't begin with some isolated bureaucrat in Washington. It doesn't even begin with state or local officials. Education begins in the home, where it is a parental right and responsibility.

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.

We in America have learned bitter lessons from two world wars: It is better to be here [in Europe] ready to protect the peace, than to take blind shelter across the sea, rushing to respond only after freedom is lost. We've learned that isolationism never was and never will be an acceptable response to tyrannical governments with an expansionist intent.

America is too great for small dreams.