The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years.

It is difficult to overstate the importance of the Civil Rights Act.

It is virtually impossible to compete in today's global economy without a college degree.

There is nothing Federal about local volunteer fire departments.

No one should be denied the opportunity to get an education and increase their earning potential based solely on their inability to pay for a college education.

In the Brown decision, the United States Supreme Court unanimously struck down the legal and moral footing of racially segregated public education in this country.

While there are many obstacles that deter students from going to college, finances by no means should be the deciding factor.

We can play politics, or we can reduce crime.

We can continue our progress as a Nation toward the promise that all people are created equal and that our Nation will treat every person in that spirit.

Obviously, there has to be a profound change in direction. Otherwise, interest on the national debt will start eating up virtually every penny that we have.

Today, education is perhaps the most important function of state and local governments.

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.

Don't stop aspiring. Just learn to duck. . .

One never said the things one wanted — one remembered them all an hour afterwards. On the other hand one usually said a lot of things one shouldn't, simply from a sense that one had to say something.

I am always scared before going on stage this is the fear which makes me do well.

They tried stoning me, my dear. It did not work.

No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law?

I am a brigand: I live by robbing the rich.' 'I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor.

If it doesn't have siamese twins in a jar, it is not a fair.

We may come to Jesus and ask Him; He will know all about it; if He comes to a little child, he will adapt himself to the language and capacity of a little child.

It's hard to watch something you've done many years ago.