“Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.”

“If we stand passively by while the centre of each city becomes a hive of depravation, crime and hopelessnessif we become two people, the suburban affluent and the urban poor, each filled with mistr...”

“Already a congressman, to a mentor "I hope sometime you run across something you think I can do well 24 hours per day.”

“The land flourished because it was fed from so many sources--because it was nourished by so many cultures and traditions and peoples.”

“Emancipation was a proclamation, but not a fact.”

“We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.”

“Without meaningful work you might as well be dead.”

“One redeeming feature of human beings is that we must work to sustain our survival. Working attaches people to reality; it creates a survival identity, and provides structure to our life. Work prov...”

“What am I living for and what am I dying for are the same question.”

“It was my view then, and still is, that you don't make war without knowing why. Knowledge of course, is always imperfect, but it seemed to me that when a nation goes to war it must have reasonable ...”

“If one morning in the Spring, a stranger came and said to me, Your mother, father, brother, sister, uncle, lover, friend, is dead. From a b-52, napalm bombing, search and destroy mission, air attac...”

“In the emergency of growing up, we all need heroes. But the father I grew up with was no hero to me, not then. He was too wounded in the head, too endlessly and terribly sad. Too funny, too explosi...”

“...if charity begins at home, empire begins in other men's homes.”

“There are no moral obligations in the game of empire.”

“Every empire grow until its reach exceeds its grasp”