“We are a people in a quandary about the present. We are a people in search of our future. We are a people in search of a national community.”

Let there be no illusions about the difficulty of forming this kind of a national community. It’s tough, difficult, not easy. But a spirit of harmony will survive in America only if each of us remembers that we share a common destiny.

We must not become the new puritans and reject our society. We must address and master the future together. It can be done if we restore the belief that we share a sense of national community, that we share a common national endeavor. It can be done.

Let us heed the voice of the people and recognize their common sense. If we do not, we not only blaspheme our political heritage, we ignore the common ties that bind all Americans.

Justice of right is always to take precedence over might.

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.

If you’re going to play the game [politics] properly, you’d better know every rule.

…for the system to be credible, people actually have to be deported at the end of the process.

A spirit of harmony can only survive if each of us remembers, when bitterness and self-interest seem to prevail, that we share a common destiny.

If you had to work in the environment of Washington, D.C., as I do, and watch those men who are so imprisoned and so confined by their eighteenth-century thought patterns, you would know that if anybody is going to be liberated, it’s men who must be liberated in this country.

If we promise as public officials, we must deliver. If we as public officials propose, we must produce.

I get from the soil and spirit of Texas the feeling that I, as an individual, can accomplish whatever I want to, and that there are no limits, that you can just keep going, just keep soaring. I like that spirit.

The majority of the American people still believe that every single individual in this country is entitled to just as much respect, just as much dignity, as every other individual.

For our immigration policy to make sense, it is necessary to make distinctions between those who obey the law, and those who violate it.

Life is too large to hang out a sign: ‘For Men Only.

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.

Fairness is an across-the-board requirement for all our interactions with each other …Fairness treats everbody the same.

When you believe in something and believe in your community, no one can stop you from creating change.

The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.

A heavy or progressive or graduated income tax is necessary for the proper development of Communism.

Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established, an ideal to which reality have to adjust itself.

Now more than ever, we need heroes in our communities!

The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.

You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.

The pain and emotional trauma caused by the racism and violence we are witnessing toward the black community has a long reach.