America's support for human rights and democracy is our noblest export to the world.

Our schools should get five years to get back to where they were in 1963. If they're still bad maybe we should declare educational bankruptcy, give the people their money and let them educate themselves and start their own schools.

Give yourself an even greater challenge than the one you are trying to master and you will develop the powers necessary to overcome the original difficulty.

The formation of character in young people is educationally a different task from and a prior task to, the discussion of the great, difficult ethical controversies of the day.

I support Democrats and Republicans. And I'm telling you that the business community in this company is frightened to death of the weird political philosophy of the President of the United States. And until he's gone, everybody's going to be sitting on their thumbs.

The motive power of democracy is love.

Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice.

My door will always be open to those who genuinely renounce violence and seek peaceful accommodation into our nascent democracy.