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.

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.

Laws will not eliminate prejudice from the hearts of human beings. But that is no reason to allow prejudice to continue to be enshrined in our laws - to perpetuate injustice through inaction.

Any time things appear to be going better, you have overlooked something.

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.

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.