America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense, it is the other way around. Human rights invented America.

As I am today, I was concerned about human rights, and I was concerned about the well-being of the working people of this country,

I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem-and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?

encouraged and pleased to see that the countries of Latin America stood up for human rights and democracy in their own region, especially with regard to Cuba.

What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom "to" and freedom "from."

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.