Semi-automatic weapons have no socially redeeming purpose.

Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.

A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back - but they are gone. We are it. It is up to us. It is up to you.

You didn't have a choice about the parents you inherited, but you do have a choice about the kind of parent you will be.

Somehow we are going to have to develop a concept of enough for those at the top and at the bottom so that the necessities of the many are not sacrificed for the luxuries of the few.

Our true remembrance to President Kennedy is in our actions to honor the unspoken words and finish the unfinished work today and tomorrow and for as long as it takes.