If our planes were shot down, yes, they's wake me right away. If the other fellows' were shot down, why wake me up?

I am not a scientist.

Well, it [evolution] is a theory, it is a scientific theory only, and it has in recent years been challenged in the world of science and is not yet believed in the scientific community to be as infallible as it once was believed. But if it was going to be taught in the schools, then I think that also the biblical theory of creation, which is not a theory but the biblical story of creation, should also be taught.

Abraham Lincoln freed the black man. In many ways, Dr. King freed the white man. How did he accomplish this tremendous feat? Where others - white and black - preached hatred, he taught the principles of love and nonviolence.

Love your country, not for her power or wealth, but for her selflessness and her idealism.

The arts and humanities teach us who we are and what we can be. They lie at the very core of the culture of which we're a part.

Preservation of our environment is not a liberal or conservative challenge, it's common sense.