“I want to make it clear,if there is ever a conflict [between environmental quality and economic growth], I will go for beauty, clean air, water, and landscape.”

You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.

I am no big shot. I am not anybody’s boss. I want to be everybody’s servant.

One of the most serious problems that our country has inherited an unwillingness to talk to anyone who disagrees with us or who won’t accept, before a discussion, all the premises that we demand.

The abuse of women and girls is the most pervasive and unaddressed human right violation on earth.

This view that women are somehow inferior to men is not restricted to one religion or belief. It is widespread. Women are prevented from playing a full and equal role in many faiths.

I’ve never won an argument with my wife; and the only time I thought I had I found out the argument wasn’t over yet.

And so I say to you and to others around the world, whether they wish us well or ill – do not underestimate us Americans. We lack neither strength nor wisdom.

The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens.

If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.

Every advance in this half-century-Social Security, civil rights, Medicare, aid to education, one after another-came with the support and leadership of American Labor.

We are of course a nation of differences. Those differences don’t make us weak. They’re the source of our strength.

I’m not in favor of the government mandating a prayer in school because our country was founded on the fact that no particular religious faith would have ascendance over or preferential treatment over any other.

A fundamentalist can’t bring himself or herself to negotiate with people who disagree with them because the negotiating process itself is an indication of implied equality.

You can not divorce religious belief and public service. I’ve never detected any conflict between God’s will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other.

Throughout my life, I’ve seen the difference that volunteering efforts can make in people’s lives. I know the personal value of service as a local volunteer.

It is difficult for the common good to prevail against the intense concentration of those who have a special interest, especially if the decisions are made behind locked doors.

I’m no longer afraid of conflict, and I don’t think conflict is a bad thing.

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

The constant struggle in mature life, I think, is to accept the necessity of tragedy and conflict, and not to try to escape to some falsely simple solution which does not include these more somber complexities.

I did not have to read books to know that the theme of life is conflict and pain.

Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.

Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.

Without frustration you will not discover that you might be able to do something on your own. We grow through conflict.

I am not a victim of emotional conflicts. I am human.