“Justice of right is always to take precedence over might.”

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.

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.

Things which matter cost money, and we’ve got to spend the money if we do not want to have generations of parasites rather than generations of productive citizens.

There is nowhere you can go and only be with people who are like you. Give it up.

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

God does not require us to achieve any of the good tasks that humanity must pursue. What God requires of us is that we not stop trying.

The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pygmies

We need, in every community, a group of angelic troublemakers.

Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn’t have as many monuments to unveil.

A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.

We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.