It is difficult to overstate the importance of the Civil Rights Act.

It is virtually impossible to compete in today's global economy without a college degree.

The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years.

There is nothing Federal about local volunteer fire departments.

No one should be denied the opportunity to get an education and increase their earning potential based solely on their inability to pay for a college education.

In the Brown decision, the United States Supreme Court unanimously struck down the legal and moral footing of racially segregated public education in this country.

While there are many obstacles that deter students from going to college, finances by no means should be the deciding factor.

We can play politics, or we can reduce crime.

We can continue our progress as a Nation toward the promise that all people are created equal and that our Nation will treat every person in that spirit.

Obviously, there has to be a profound change in direction. Otherwise, interest on the national debt will start eating up virtually every penny that we have.

Today, education is perhaps the most important function of state and local governments.

I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.

Time is just an illusion. What you need is to live this very moment. That is all that matters.

You get through it, you just never get over it

I did no know everything there was to know about myself, and knew that I did not know it.

Here's to the drunken Marine With beer in his canteen! You've heard of the Unknown Soldier But, never an unknown Marine!

Her life is deep, but I still dig her

The Biblical vision is not so much concerned with life after death but about life after life after death.

We humans are a fairly barbarous bunch.

God fully knows himself and all things actual and possible in one simple and eternal act.

During a carnival, men put masks over their masks.