"We, the people." It is a very elegant beginning. But when that document was completed on the 17th of September in 1787, I was not included in that "We, the people."

If the society today allows wrongs to go unchallenged, the impression is created that those wrongs have the approval of the majority.

We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.

Just remember the world is not a playground but a schoolroom. Life is not a holiday but an education. One eternal lesson for us all: to teach us how better we should love.

Today, I am an inquisitor. I shall not sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution.

Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.

A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good.

Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.

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.

What the people want is very simple - they want an America as good as its promise.

It is a privilege to serve people, a privilege that must be earned, and once earned, there is an obligation to do something good with it.

Writing without revising is the literary equivalent of waltzing gaily out of the house in your underwear.

Busy with the ugliness of the expensive success We forget the easiness of free beautyLying sad right around the corner, Only an instant removed, Unnoticed and squandered.

Such subtle covenants shall be made, Till peace itself is war in masquerade.

The most gratifying action plan that one can conceive is one that others deem unattainable only to be proven wrong.

I want to marry the kind of girl that walks out of an abortion clinic with a lollipop.

Slavery is malignantly aristocratic.

Once you are in the orbit of your destiny, weightlessness is the only result.

I repeat that superior races have a right [to establish colonies], because they have a duty. They have the duty to civilize inferior races.

Because this, for better or worse, is exactly where the truth lies--at the intersection of the forgotten and the ignored, in the neighborhood of all we have tried to forget.

Taxpayers have spent more than $200 billion in the last decade on computer systems that are antiquated, incompatible, and not doing the job.