Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.

• Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.
• Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.
• The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.
• Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere as long as the policy you've decided upon is being carried out.
• What we have found in this country, and maybe we're more aware of it now, is one problem that we've had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.
• The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.
• Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.
• All great change in America begins at the dinner table.
• There are no easy answers' but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.
• Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.