We have never seen health as a right. It has been conceived as a privilege, available only to those who can afford it. This is the real reason the American health care system is in such a scandalous state.

Congress seems drugged and inert most of the time... its idea of meeting a problem is to hold hearings or, in extreme cases, to appoint a commission.

I love America not for what she is, but for what she can become.

You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.

My greatest political asset, which professional politicians fear, is my mouth, out of which come all kinds of things one shouldn't always discuss for reasons of political expediency.

I don’t measure America by its achievement but by its potential.

America has the laws and the material resources it takes to insure justice for all its people. What it lacks is the heart, the humanity.