"The bringing-about of order is the first and fundamental task of government. We accept limits on our rights for the sake of a larger social compact all the time."

"In America, now, let us - Christian, Jew, Muslim, agnostic, atheist, wiccan, whatever - fight nativism with the same strength and conviction that we fight terrorism. My faith calls on its followers to love one's enemies. A tall order, that - perhaps the tallest of all."

"World War II ended the Great Depression with one of the great public-private industrial collaborations in the history of man."

"The middle class, one of the great achievements in history, is becoming more of a relic than a reality."

"There was a time when young people respected learning and literature and now they don't."

"The future is green energy, sustainability, renewable energy."

"Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future."

"Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons."