If you want to see your plays performed the way you wrote them, become President.

I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than 10 military divisions.

Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed.

Hope is not a feeling of certainty that everything ends well. Hope is just a feeling that life and work have a meaning.

Our social and economic statistics are telling us what we already know in our hearts: we have created a world that works for only a few. To change this, we must learn to act toward each other and our environment in profoundly different ways.

People, your Government has returned to you!

Education is the ability to perceive the hidden connections between phenomena.