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.

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.

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

Of course, accidents will happen in wild-folk families just as among us humans, only in a wild-folk family, an accident is more apt to be fatal.

I just don't want to die alone, that's all. That's not too much to ask for, is it It would be nice to have someone care about me, for who I am, not about my wallet.

What you have in your mind, your talents, your native abilities, no one can take from you. When you die, you take them with you. Use them diligently while you are here.

Flesh of my flesh, bone of my bone, I here, though there, yet both but one.

I can give you the cause of anaphylactic shock in a nutshell.

Such an error, one finds, to do things for the best. They usually seem to be such unpleasant things.

You can be the seventh scorer or the first scorer, just be your best version.

And some by hours; Some measure days by dreams And some by flowers; My heart alone records My days and hours.

But we are all insane, anyway ... The suicides seem to be the only sane people.

La Paz, Bolivia, is the most extraordinary city.