Unfortunately, our affluent society has also been an effluent society.

The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.

Today we know that World War II began not in 1939 or 1941 but in the 1920's and 1930's when those who should have known better persuaded themselves that they were not their brother's keeper.

The difference between hearsay and prophecy is often one of sequence. Hearsay often turns out to have been prophecy.

A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.

The time has arrived in America for the Democratic Party to get out of the shadows of states rights and walk forthrightly into the bright sunshine of human rights

The moral test of a society is how that society treats those who are in the dawn of life: the children; ... the elderly.

I learned more about the economy from one South Dakota dust storm that I did in all my years of college.

My favorite sandwich is peanut butter, baloney, cheddar cheese, lettuce, and mayonnaise on toasted bread with catsup on the side.

Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.

Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.

Knowing the 'right answers' does not mean we believe them. To believe them means to act as though they're true.

The right way to pray is to stretch out our hands and ask of One who we know has the heart of a Father.

There isno triumph or glory in the world that's worth an inch of human skin.

No attempt must be made to encase man, for it is his destiny to be set free.

Heads know that failing to invest in good, nutritious food is a false economy and parents won't tolerate reconstituted turkey being put back on the menu.

We don't have a lot of space in our imaginations to allow people to expand what they do.

Free enterprise is the best economic system in the history of the world, because it is the only system where you can make poor people richer and you don't have to make rich people poor.

Behind intimidating messages are simply people appealing to us to meet their needs.

People tend to believe that to be modern you have to disengage from your heritage, but it's not true.

The wages of sin is death but so is the salary of virtue, and at least the evil get to go home early on Fridays.