For the primary and secondary school years, we will aid public schools serving low-income families and assist students in both public and private schools.

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.

Lincoln was right about not fooling all the people all the time. But Republicans haven't given up trying.

Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.

I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it.

A man can take a little bourbon without getting drunk, but if you hold his mouth open and pour in a quart, he's going to get sick on it.

There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.

Our numbers have increased in Vietnam because the aggression of others has increased in Vietnam. There is not, and there will not be, a mindless escalation.

Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact.

Just like the Alamo, somebody damn well needed to go to their aid. Well, by God, I'm going to Viet Nam's aid!

To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story, and that is the only celebration we mortals really know.

Sometimes we need someone to just listen. Not to try and fix anything or offer alternatives, but to just be there… to listen. An ear that listens can be medicine for a heart that hurts.

When the crucified Jesus is called "the image of the invisible God, " the meaning is that THIS is God, and God is like THIS.

To lose a passport was the least of one’s worries. To lose a notebook was a catastrophe.

Everybody wants to make better music.

If you would get exercise, go in search of the springs of life.

Whenever a toddler sees a pile of blocks, he wants to tear it down.

In my normal life, I do not speak with an accent. It's harder for people to realize my hearing loss in everyday life.

... politics are nothing but sand and gravel: it is art and life that feed us until we die. Everything else is ambition, hysteria or hatred.

Europe clearly is the only place where people can speak up critically, and this is a unique cultural value.