I would have an aggressive recruitment program for positions of major importance at top levels.

I would never again yield to an Arab embargo.

I see no reason why we should let a foreign nation through economic pressure circumvent or abrogate the Bill of Rights of the United States.

There's only one person in this country that can speak with a clear voice of the American people.

We must stand staunchly with Israel.

In the absence of that leadership, there is no leadership, and the country drifts.

Our country's not weak enough to yield to pressure or to blackmail or to abandon our most noble principles.

I hope that as you maintain an attitude of self-introspection and self-examination, the removal of hatred and prejudice from your hearts, a recommitment to the finest principles of love and compassion and brotherhood and simple justice...

I believe in the value of each human being's life.

We're more of a mosaic—a beautiful mosaic—of different kinds of people.

There are 535 people there, each representing a certain constituency.

As I have said many times to audiences around the country, before I did, nobody in my family in more than two hundred years, ever had a chance to finish high school.

I owe special interests nothing.

I did not support the Humphrey-Hawkins bill in its original form.

That's got to come. It's going to come next year.

I have tried to do this at the national level and our people throughout the country have been told that one of the major supportive forces we have is in the labor movement.

That's not part of the character of our country.

This is not just a figure; it's a constant daily robbing of those who are retired.