We have not inherited an easy world. If developments like the Industrial revolution, which began here in England, and the gifts of science and technology have made life much easier for us, they have also made it more dangerous.

You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth.

We are a nation that has a government-not the other way around. And that makes us special among the nations of the earth.

Hope remains the highest reality, the age-old power.

This administration is totally colorblind.

We can't have it both ways. We can't expect God to protect us in a crisis and just leave Him over there on the shelf in our day-to-day living. I wonder if sometimes He isn't waiting for us to wake up, He isn't maybe running out of patience.

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.