Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.
If the society today allows wrongs to go unchallenged, the impression is created that those wrongs have the approval of the majority.
The imperative is to define what is right and do it.
We are a party of innovation. We do not reject our traditions, but we are willing to adapt to changing circumstances, when change we must. We are willing to suffer the discomfort of change in order to achieve a better future.
It is reason, and not passion, which must guide our deliberations, guide our debate, and guide our decision.
I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mistake. But through the process of amendment, interpretation, and court decision, I have finally been included in 'We, the people.'
If you're going to play the game properly you'd better know every rule.
For all of its uncertainty, we cannot flee the future.
Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.
Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.
There is no obstacle in the path of young people who are poor or members of minority groups that hard work and preparation cannot cure.
What the people want is very simple - they want an America as good as its promise.
We have made mistakes. In our haste to do all things for all people, we did not foresee the full consequences of our actions. And when the people raised their voices, we didn't hear. But our deafness was only a temporary condition, and not an irreversible condition.
Let each person do his or her part. If one citizen is unwilling to participate, all of us are going to suffer. For the American idea, though it is shared by all of us, is realized in each one of us.
Let us heed the voice of the people and recognize their common sense. If we do not, we not only blaspheme our political heritage, we ignore the common ties that bind all Americans.
Life is too large to hang out a sign: 'For Men Only.'
I have confidence that we can form this kind of national community.
What we have to do is strike a balance between the idea that government should do everything and the idea, the belief, that government ought to do nothing. Strike a balance.
I think it no accident that most of those emigrating to America in the 19th century identified with the Democratic Party. We are a heterogeneous party made up of Americans of diverse backgrounds.
Our concept of governing is derived from our view of people. It is a concept deeply rooted in a set of beliefs firmly etched in the national conscience, of all of us.
We are a people trying not only to solve the problems of the present: unemployment, inflation... but we are attempting on a larger scale to fulfill the promise of America.
The citizens of America expect more. They deserve and they want more than a recital of problems.
I never intended to become a run-of-the-mill person.
If we promise as public officials, we must deliver. If we as public officials propose, we must produce.
In other times, I could stand here and give this kind of exposition on the beliefs of the Democratic Party and that would be enough. But today that is not enough. People want more.
We have a positive vision of the future founded on the belief that the gap between the promise and reality of America can one day be finally closed. We believe that.
A government is invigorated when each of us is willing to participate in shaping the future of this nation.
I believe that women have a capacity for understanding and compassion which man structurally does not have, does not have it because he cannot have it. He's just incapable of it.
We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility.
We are a people in a quandary about the present. We are a people in search of our future. We are a people in search of a national community.
