We cannot defer this responsibility to posterity. Time will not wait.

Not only do we have a right to know, we have a duty to know what our Government is doing in our name.

A handful of us determine what will be on the evening news broadcasts, or, for that matter, in the New York Times or Washington Post or Wall Street Journal. Indeed it is a handful of us with this awesome power.And those [news stories] available to us already have been culled and re-culled by persons far outside our control.

Would it be better to have a president who cries easily? Well, that depends on what he cried about. I would not like the thought of a president who could not cry. That would be worse than one who cried over the right things. Which, in this case, would be the things I would cry over.

There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.

We know that no one should tell a woman she has to bear an unwanted child. We know that religious beliefs cannot define patriotism.

I was lucky enough to have one of the first high school classes in the country.