Your children need your presence more than your presents.

No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams.

When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through

A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever

Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together

Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master

Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude but their attitude that will determine their altitude

Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories

I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled

Our flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbow-red, yellow, brown, black and white-and we're all precious in God's sight