I don't want President Trump misusing the FBI. I don't want President Biden--

By talking as I will about what I think can be done positively as far as the future is concerned, what can be done in the 1970's, what this country needs to stand for and the idealism and the feeling of unselfishness, which I think exists…

He said, it is not enough to allow dissent, we must demand. He said the critic is as much of a patriot as someone who supports a president or supports what members of Congress do.

A persuasive argument can be made that the adoption of the 23rd Amendment has given constitutional status to the existence of a federally owned district, constituting the seat of government of the United States, having a substantial area…

I am announcing today my candidacy for the presidency of the United States.

Let us work together towards this noble effort against terrorism to dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago, 'to tame the savages of man and make gentle the life of this world.'

[D]edicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world. Let us dedicate ourselves to that, and say a prayer for our country and for our people.

As long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.

I have told the President personally neither he nor anybody on his staff can interfere with what we are doing on prosecutions.

Each time a man stands for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build…

If our criminal justice system means anything, we must ensure that it is fair and impartial and that it is not unfair to certain segments of the population.

The future does not belong to those who are content with today. Rather, it will belong to those who can blend reason, vision, and courage in a personal commitment to the ideals and great enterprises of American society.

In this difficult day, in this difficult time for the United States, it is perhaps well to ask what kind of a nation we are and what direction we want to move in.

Or we can make an effort, as Martin Luther King did, to understand and to comprehend, and to replace that violence, that stain of bloodshed that has spread across our land, with an effort to understand with compassion and love.

I have bad news for you, for all of our fellow citizens, and people who love peace all over the world, and that is that Martin Luther King was shot and killed tonight.

We can move in that direction as a country, in great polarization--black people amongst black, white people amongst white, filled with hatred toward one another.