I would like to do away with affirmative action, and I will, as soon as I'm convinced it's no longer needed.

I want the 21st century to be a time when every American has the chance to live up to the fullest of his or her God-given abilities.

Education is the way we keep the promise of the American dream to all of our children without regard to their circumstances.

I seek no special favors for the United States, no special concessions.

God created us all equal, with the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

The American dream doesn't guarantee results for anybody.

America works best when everybody's got a chance at the brass ring.

The job of every American at the close of the 20th century is to do what we can to guarantee that, as we move to the next century, the American dream will be available to all of our people.

Every person in this country still believes that we are created equal and given by our Creator the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

His life should have special impact for every American, for he freed the rest of us, too, of our hatred, our bigotry, of the illusion which still crops up from time to time that we can somehow lift ourselves up by putting others down.

The most important civil right is the right to dream the American dream and to have the opportunity to live it.

Every American deserves a piece of the American dream.

Let us not forget His lesson that one day we will be asked whether we lived out His love in ways that treated all of our brothers and sisters as we would have treated Him.

We are committed to the gains made by minority voters through enforcement of the Voting Rights Act.

One is, well, they're not really always equal, these separate facilities.

Because they were separated, right, they wouldn't be equal.

We need to provide the opportunity for every American to live up to his or her capacity in the least restrictive environment that that person might choose.

Our goal should be to enable every person who lives in this country to live up to his or her God-given potential.