
America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense, it is the other way around. Human rights invented America.
Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.
We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.
The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.
Unless both sides win, no agreement can be permanent.
You can't 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.